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Merry-Garden and Other Stories, by Sir
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Title: Merry-Garden and Other Stories
Author: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Release Date: January 15, 2009 [eBook #27813]
Language: English
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MERRY-GARDEN AND OTHER STORIES.
by
ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH.
1907
This e-text was prepared from a version published in 1907.
CONTENTS.
MERRY-GARDEN.
THE BEND OF THE ROAD.
HI-SPY-HI.
HIS EXCELLENCY'S PRIZE-FIGHT.
THE BLACK JOKE.
WHERE THE TREASURE IS.
A JEST OF AMBIALET.
MERRY GARDEN.
I.
PROLOGUE.
Beside a winding creek of the Lynher River, and not far from the Cornish borough of Saltash, you may find a roofless building so closely backed with cherry-orchards that the trees seem by their slow pressure to be thrusting the mud-walls down to the river's brink, there to topple and fall into the tide. The old trees, though sheeted with white blossom in the spring, bear little fruit, and that of so poor a flavour as to be scarcely worth picking. They have, in fact, almost rev
Merry-Garden and Other Stories
by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch