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Gordon Stables. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer"; or, Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan
The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer"; or, Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan
Table of Contents
"Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan"
Preface
Chapter One
Introductory—Written Before Starting
Chapter Two
The Caravan Itself—First Trials—Getting Horsed
On Getting Horsed
Chapter Three
First Experiences of Gipsy Life—The Trial Trip—A ThunderStorm on Maidenhead Thicket
Chapter Four
Twyford and the Regions around it
Chapter Five
A First Week’s Outing
Chapter Six
Our Last Spring Ramble
Chapter Seven
A Start for the Far North—From Reading to Warwick
Chapter Eight
Leamington and Warwick—A Lovely Drive—A Bit of Black Country—Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Chapter Nine
A Quiet Sunday at Lount—A Visit to a Pottery—Beeston Hall—A Broiling Day
Chapter Ten
Doncaster—Brentley—Askern—Dinner on a Yorkshire Wold
Chapter Eleven
A Day in the Life of a Gentleman Gipsy
Chapter Twelve
At Durham—The British Miner at Home—Gosforth—Among Northumbrian Banks—Across the Tweed
Chapter Thirteen
The Crew of the “Wanderer,” All Told
My Jehu John
Alfred Foley
Polly—The Cockatoo
Hurricane Bob
Chapter Fourteen
Letters Home, after being Months on the Road
Chapter Fifteen
The Humours of the Road—Inn Signs—What I am Taken for—A Study of Faces—Milestones and Finger-Posts—Tramps—The Man with the Iron Mask—The Collie Dog—Gipsies’ Dogs—A Midnight Attack on the Wanderer
Milestones and Finger-Posts
Tramps
The Man with the Iron Mask
The Scotch Collie Dog
Gipsies’ Dogs
Chapter Sixteen
Sunny Memories of the Border-Land
Chapter Seventeen
Scenes in Berwick—Border Marriages—Bonnie Ayton
Chapter Eighteen
The Journey to Dunbar—A Rainy Day
Chapter Nineteen
A Day at Pressmannan—The Fight for a Polonie Sausage—In the Haughs of Haddington—Mrs Carlile’s Grave—Genuine Hospitality
Chapter Twenty
Edinburgh—The Fisher Folks o’ Musselboro’—Through Linlithgow to Falkirk—Gipsy-Folks
Chapter Twenty One
Glasgow and Grief—A Pleasant Meadow—Thunderstorm at Chryston—Strange Effects—That Terrible Twelfth of August—En Route for Perth and the Grampians
Chapter Twenty Two
On the High Road to the Highlands
Chapter Twenty Three
Snow-Posts—A Moonlight Ramble—Dalwhinnie—A Danger Escaped—An Ugly Ascent—Inverness at Last
Chapter Twenty Four
Wild Flowers—A Hedgerow in July—Hedgerows in General—In Woodland and Copse—In Fields and in Moorlands
Hedgerows in General
Chapter Twenty Five
A Chapter about Children—Children in Bouquets—Children by the “sad sea-wave”—sweet maudie brewer—wee dickie ellis—the miner’s sprite
Chapter Twenty Six
From Inverness to London—Southward Away—The “Wanderer’s” Little Mistress—A Quiet Sabbath—A Dreary Evening at Aldbourne
Chapter Twenty Seven
Storm-Stayed at Brighton—Along the Coast and to Lyndhurst—The New Forest—Homewards through Hants
Chapter Twenty Eight
Caravanning for Health
Breakfasts
Eleven o’clock Snacks
Luncheons
Dinners
Suppers
Ailments Likely to be Benefited by Caravan Life
Chapter Twenty Nine
The Cycle as Tender to the Caravan
Haddington and round it
Chapter Thirty
Hints to Would-be Caravannists
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II. Style of Build
Upholstering and Furnishing
Sketching from the Coupé
The Cooking-Range
The Provision Book
An Early Start Desirable
Asking the Road
Belated
While on the Road
Stabling
Civility
The Price of Stabling
Water
Dangers of the Road
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Gordon Stables
Published by Good Press, 2021
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I pulled to the side at once, and the party in the waggonette passed, the gentleman who handled the ribbons scowling and looking forked lightning at us. No wonder, the idea of being stopped on the road by itinerant gipsies!
Well, in driving a large caravan, as you cannot look behind nor see behind, it is as well to keep pretty near your own side of the road. This was a lesson I determined to lay to heart. But if seeing behind me was impossible, hearing was quite as much so, unless it had been the firing of a six-pounder. This was owing to the rattling of things inside the van, for, it being but our trial trip, things had not settled shipshape.
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