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The Mayor of Troy

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Mayor of Troy, by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Title: The Mayor of Troy

Author: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Release Date: November 10, 2006 [eBook #19751]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MAYOR OF TROY***

E-text prepared by Lionel Sear

THE MAYOR OF TROY.

BY

Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch.

1906.

This e-text prepared from a reprint of a version published in 1906.

TO MY FRIEND

KENNETH GRAHAM

AND

THE REST OF THE CREW

OF THE

"RICHARD AND EMILY"

AND WITH APOLOGIES TO

THE MAYOR OF

LOSTWITHIEL

A BOROUGH

FOR WHICH I HAVE (WITH CAUSE)

MUCH AFFECTION AND

A VERY HIGH ESTEEM.

CONTENTS.

Chapter
	PROLOGUE
I.	OUR MAJOR.
II.	OUR MAYOR.
III.	THE MILLENIUM.
IV.	HOW THE TROY GALLANTS CHALLENGED THE LOOE DIEHARDS.
V.	INTERFERENCE OF A GUERSEY MERCHANT.
VI.	MALBROUCK S'EN VA.
VII.	THE BATTLE OF TALLAND COVE.
VIII.	"COME, MY CORRINNA, COME!"
IX.	BY LERRYN WATER.
X.	GUNNER SOBEY TURNS LOOSE THE MILLENIUM.
XI.	THE MAJOR LEAVES US.
XII.	A COLD DOUCHE ON A HOT FIT.
XIII.	A VERY HOT PRESS.
XIV.	THE "VESUVIUS" BOMB.
XV.	UP-CHANNEL.
XVI.	FAREWELL TO ALBION!
XVII.	MISSING!
XVIII.	APOTHEOSIS.
XIX.	THE RETURN.
XX.	IN WHICH THE MAJOR LEARNS THAT NO MAN IS NECESSARY.
XXI.	FACES IN WATER.
XXII.	WINDS UP WITH A MERRY-GO-ROUND.

THE MAYOR OF TROY.

PROLOGUE.

Good wine needs no bush; but this story has to begin with an apology.

Years ago I promised myself to write a treatise on the lost Mayors of Cornwall—dignitaries whose pleasant fame is now night, recalled only by some neat byword or proverb current in the Delectable (or as a public speaker pronounced it the other day, the Dialectable) Duchy. Thus you may hear of "the Mayor of Falmouth, who thanked God when the town jail was enlarged"; "the Mayor of Market Jew, sitting in his own light"; "the Mayor of Tregoney, who could read print upside-down, but wasn't above being spoken to"; "the Mayor of Calenick, who walked two miles to ride one"; "the Mayor of East Looe, who called the King of England 'Brother.'" Everyone remembers the stately prose in which Gibbon records when and how he determined on his great masterpiece, when and how he completed it. "It was at Rome: on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the

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