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Westward Ho, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
Westward Ho Vol 1 of 2 - Classic Reprint Author:Charles Kingsley ALL who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge where salmon wait for autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the we3t. Above the town the hills close in, cushioned with de... more »ep oak woods, through which juts here and there a crag of fern-fringed slate; below they lower, and open more and more in softly rounded knolls, and fertile squares of red and green, till they sink into the wide expanse of hazy flats, rich salt-marshes, and rolling sand-hills, where Tor ridge joins her sister Taw, and both together flow quietly toward the broad surges of the bar, and the everlasting thunder of the long Atlantic swell. Pleasantly the old town stands there, beneath its soft Italian sky, fanned day and night by the fresh ocean breeze, which forbids alike the keen winter frosts, and the fierce thunder
Table of Contents
Introductionix; chapter; I How Mr Oxenham saw tiie White Bird i II How Amyas Came Home the First Time 27; III Of Two Gentlemen of Wales, and how they; Hunted with the Hounds, and yet Ran with tiie Deer73; IV The Two Ways of Being Crost in Love 99 V Clovelly Court in the Olden Time135; VI The Combes of the Far West172; VII, The True and Tragical History of Mr John; Oxexham of Plymouth184; VIH How the Noble Brotherhood of the Rose was; Founded245; IX How Amyas Kept his Christmas Day 270 X How the Mayor op Bideford Baited his Hook; with his Own Flesh320; XI How Eustace Leigh Met the Pope's Lecate 336 XII How Bideford Bridge Dined at Annery; House361; XIZ1 How the Golden Hind Came Home Again 400 XIV How Salvation Yeo Slew the King of the; Gubbings413; XV How Mr John Brimulecomde Understood the; Nature of an Oath443
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