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Title: True Tilda

Author: Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Release Date: May 10, 2004 [eBook #12316]

Language: English

Character set encoding: US-ASCII

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TRUE TILDA***

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 this consistently throughout the book. At times
there seems to be as many apostrophes as characters!
The printers have spaced these out and I hope that
I have joined them up acceptably for our purpose.

Chapter X of the original book contained a diagram
of a tattoo, and another diagram appeared in Chapter
XX. Text has been added to substitute for these
diagrams.

TRUE TILDA

By "Q" (A.T. QUILLER-COUCH)

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I AT THE SIGN OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN.

II HOW TRUE TILDA CAME TO DOLOROUS GARD

III A KIDNAPPING

IV IN WHICH CHILDE ARTHUR LOSES ONE MOTHER AND GAINS ANOTHER

V TEMPORARY EMBARRASSMENTS OF A THESPIAN

VI MR. MORTIMER'S ADVENTURE

VII IN WHICH MR. HUCKS TAKES A HAND

VIII FLIGHT

IX FREEDOM

X THE FOUR DIAMONDS.

XI THE "STRATFORD-ON-AVON"

XII PURSUED

XIII ADVENTURE OF THE FURRED COLLAR

XIV ADVENTURE OF THE PRIMROSE FETE

XV ADVENTURE OF THE FAT LADY

XVI ADVENTURES OF THE "FOUR ALLS" AND OF THE CELESTIAL CHEMIST

XVII BY WESTON WEIR

XVIII DOWN AVON

XIX THE S.S. _EVAN EVANS_

XX INISTOW FARM

XXI THE HUNTED STAG

XXII THE VOYAGE

XXIII THE ISLAND

XXIV GLASSON IN CHASE

XXV MISS SALLY BREAKS THE DOORS