Writer: Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

E-text prepared by Lionel G. Sear–A Lifetime Enthusiast of the British Inland Waterway System Transcriber’s note: This was one of the most enjoyable e-texts that I have prepared but also one of the most difficult. Many of the characters use the working class slang and dialect of 100 years ago and the author sticks to

E-text prepared by Guus van Baalen Transcriber’s Notes: 1. Words which may seem to be transcriber’s typos, or otherwise suspect, but which are reproduced faithfully (archaic spellings, printer’s typos–sometimes I couldn’t tell): Ch. I: befel, undigged Ch. III: chaperon Ch. IV: babby, mun, valtz Ch. V: zounded, dimpsey, after’n, ax’n, ax Ch. VI: picquet, damitol

Produced by Ted Garvin, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. THE LAIRD’S LUCK AND OTHER FIRESIDE TALES BY A.T. QUILLER-COUCH (Q) CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS NEW YORK 1901 THE LAIRD’S LUCK THE TWO SCOUTS I THE FORD OF THE TORMES In the following chapters I shall leave speaking of my own adventures and say

Produced by Ted Garvin, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. THE DELECTABLE DUCHY BY Q 1906 SHORT STORY To ALFRED PARSONS CONTENTS PROLOGUE THE SPINSTER’S MAYING DAPHNIS WHEN THE SAP ROSE THE PAUPERS CUCKOO VALLEY RAILWAY THE CONSPIRACY ABOARD THE “MIDAS” LEGENDS OF ST. PIRAN. I St. Piran: the Millstone II St. Piran:

Produced by Ted Garvin, Susan Woodring and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. POETRY By _Arthur Quiller-Couch_ “Trust in good verses then: They only shall aspire, When pyramids, as men Are lost i’the funeral fire.” As the tale is told by Plato, in the tenth book of his _Republic_, one Er the son of Arminius, a

Produced by Ted Garvin, Susan Woodring and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. POETRY By _Arthur Quiller-Couch_ “Trust in good verses then: They only shall aspire, When pyramids, as men Are lost i’the funeral fire.” As the tale is told by Plato, in the tenth book of his _Republic_, one Er the son of Arminius, a