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John Coulson Tregarthen. Wild Life at the Land's End
Wild Life at the Land's End
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. THE EARTHSTOPPER UNDER THE STARS
CHAPTER II. THE FOX-HUNT
CHAPTER III. FOX-HUNTING, AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF QUEEN BESS
CHAPTER IV. The Otter—TRACKING THE WILY VARMINT
CHAPTER V. The Otter—Continued. THE EARTHSTOPPER’S VIGIL
CHAPTER VI. The Otter—Continued. THE OTTER AT THE LAKE
CHAPTER VII. The Otter—Continued. THE HUNT
CHAPTER VIII. The White Badger of Cairn Kenidzhek. THE EARTHSTOPPER IN DOUBT
CHAPTER IX. The White Badger of Cairn Kenidzhek—Continued. THE EARTHSTOPPER ANGRY
CHAPTER X. The White Badger of Cairn Kenidzhek—Continued. THE BADGER’S CAPTURE AND ESCAPE
CHAPTER XI. The Hare. LIFE STORY OF THE JACK OF BARTINNEY
CHAPTER XII. The Hare—Continued. DIGORY STROUT AND FARMER PENDRE
CHAPTER XIII. The Hare—Continued. THE COURSE
CHAPTER XIV. A MIDNIGHT VISIT TO THE SEAL-CAVES
CHAPTER XV. REMINISCENCES OF BOYHOOD’S DAYS
CHAPTER XVI. BASS FISHING AT THE LAND’S END
CHAPTER XVII. NED’S TALE OF THE BIRDS
GLOSSARY
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John Coulson Tregarthen
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The distant stars glittered in the silent vault, the wind was heedless as the moor it swept, and there was no answer in the far-off mystic murmur of the sea.
His sinewy strides soon brought him to the edge of the cliff. Two hundred feet below, the Atlantic lashed the rocks and raged in the caverns.
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