Downland Echoes

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Victor L. Whitechurch. Downland Echoes

Downland Echoes

Table of Contents

I. THE POACHER

II. RETICENCE

III “BLOODS”

IV. THE CONCERT

V. MATTERS OF MONEY

VI. A VETERAN

VII. THE MEADOW

VIII. THE SAINT’S MOUND

IX. THE CURFEW

X. THE DANCE

XI. PREJUDICES

XII. A LITTLE CHILD’S FUNERAL

XIII. THE BISHOP’S VISIT

XIV. MICHAELMAS HIRING

XV. THE VILLAGE OVER THE DOWNS

XVI. THE “TOP O’ THE WORLD”

XVII. THE CORONATION

XVIII. PLACE NAMES

XIX. DARK DAYS

XX. THE AFTERMATH

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Victor L. Whitechurch

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Tom Horner stepped out of the dock, touching his forehead to the majesty of the law, smiled affably at Godfrey Wheeler, and put his tongue in his cheek and winked at Jarvis when he passed him on his way out of the court.

Jarvis, of course, was charged with the collection of the money at the end of the allotted week of grace. He put his handcuffs in his pocket before paying the call, and anticipated a journey to Derringford with Horner as his prisoner. For he knew—as everyone else knew—that Horner had not done a stroke of well-digging or thatching all the week.

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