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Cornish Saints and Sinners

Cornish Saints and Sinners

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" 237 Newquay Sands " 238 Newquay facing " 240 "The Soul of Tregeagle in Pain" facing " 244 Front Doors " 248 A Fair Prospect " 254 John Burton " 255 Barracks Hopp, Falmouth facing " 256 The Penryn Stocks " 263 St. Goeland and the Sea-gull facing " 268 The Dog-fish " 271 Three Minutes with a Dog-fish facing " 274 A Street Corner, St. Ives " 280 Figure-head of the "Caledonia," Morwenstow facing " 284 Tintagel " 291 Yseult and Tristan facing " 294 The Digey " 298 King Arthur's Castle facing " 298 A Cornish Stile " 309 Low Tide " 312


Cornish Coat of Arms

CORNISH SAINTS AND SINNERS


Chapter I

We were three.

Guy Moore, who had scraped through his "final," and eaten his call dinner, and talked sometimes of full-bottomed wigs and woolsacks.

George Milner, surnamed the "Bookworm."

Myself.

It was an old arrangement between Guy and myself to go somewhere as soon as the Long Vacation commenced, and the Bookworm, a relation of Guy's, was included on account of his health. The doctor told him that if he did not take a timely rest now he'd never read all the books in the British Museum library, which he had set himself to do before going to Paris to read there, and then some other place, and so on. Bookworms are like that. Our mutual friend was an earnest young man, and had the reader's look about the eyes; and when he went to bed he read unknown books in his sleep. The doctor said, "Get him away—plenty of air, plenty of walking, no books."

We met in Guy's chambers, and talked Cornwall; but the trouble was with the Bookworm, who wanted to take a truck-load of books with him.

We decided on going to Penzance, and then rambling just where we would. A visit to the land of a lost language attracted the Bookworm, who at once added a few score books to be read on the spot.

Guy was appointed guardian of the common purse, and empowered to make all arrangements.

The books were left behind.


A splendid day in August we had for our run westward. The Bookworm had a corner, and by-and-by the spirit

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