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Title: Cornwall's Wonderland
Author: Mabel Quiller-Couch
Release Date: October 3, 2008 [eBook #26755]
Language: English
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CORNWALL'S WONDERLAND
by
MABEL QUILLER-COUCH.
1914
This e-text was prepared from a version published in 1914.
PREFACE.
With a vivid recollection of the keen enjoyment I myself found in the
strange and wonderful Romances and Legends of Old Cornwall, now so
rapidly being forgotten; with a remembrance too of the numerous long
and involved paragraphs--even pages--that I skipped, as being prosy
or unintelligible, written as they were in a dialect often
untranslatable even by a Cornish child, I have here tried to present
a few of these tales in simpler form, to suit not only Cornish children,
but those of all parts.
M.Q.C.
CONTENTS.
HOW CORINEUS FOUGHT THE CHIEF OF THE GIANTS.
THE GIANT OF ST. MICHAEL'S MOUNT.
THE LEGEND OF THE TAMAR, THE TAVY, AND THE TAW.
THE STRANGE STORY OF CHERRY HONEY.
THE FAIRIES ON THE GUMP.
THE FAIRY OINTMENT.
THE EXCITING ADVENTURE OF JOHN STURTRIDGE.
THE TRUE STORY OF ANNE AND THE FAIRIES.
BARKER AND THE BUCCAS.
LUTEY AND THE MERMAID.
THE WICKED SPECTRE.
THE STORY OF THE LOVERS' COVE.
THE SILVER TABLE.
CRUEL COPPINGER, THE DANE.
MADGE FIGGY, THE WRECKER.
HOW MADGE FIGGY GOT HER PIG.
THE STORY OF SIR TRISTRAM AND LA BELLE ISEULT.
HOW CORINEUS FOUGHT THE CHIEF OF THE GIANTS
Long, long ago, when Cornwall was almost a desert land, cold, bleak, and
poor, and inhabited only by giants, who had destroyed and eaten all the
smaller people, Brutus and Corineus came with a large Trojan army
intending to conquer England, or Albion as it was then called, and landed
at Plymouth for that purpose.
These two valiant chiefs had heard strange tales of the enormous size of
the people in that part of the island, so, like wise generals, before
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