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Title: Moonfleet
Author: J. Meade Falkner
Release Date: January 18, 2004 [EBook #10743]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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MOONFLEET
J. MEADE FALKNER
1898
We thought there was no more behind But such a day tomorrow as today And to be a boy eternal.
Shakespeare
TO ALL MOHUNES OF FLEET AND MOONFLEET IN AGRO DORCESTRENSI LIVING OR DEAD
CONTENTS
1 IN MOONFLEET VILLAGE
2 THE FLOODS
3 A DISCOVERY
4 IN THE VAULT
5 THE RESCUE
6 AN ASSAULT
7 AN AUCTION
8 THE LANDING
9 A JUDGEMENT
10 THE ESCAPE
11 THE SEA-CAVE
12 A FUNERAL
13 AN INTERVIEW
14 THE WELL-HOUSE
15 THE WELL
16 THE JEWEL
17 AT YMEGUEN
18 IN THE BAY
19 ON THE BEACH
Says the Cap'n to the Crew, We have slipped the Revenue, I can see the cliffs of Dover on the lee: Tip the signal to the Swan, And anchor broadside on, And out with the kegs of Eau-de-Vie, Says the Cap'n: Out with the kegs of Eau-de-Vie. Says the Lander to his men, Get your grummets on the pin, There's a blue lig