THOMAS HARDY'S DORSET
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THOMAS HARDY'S
DORSET
BY R. THURSTON HOPKINS
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY E. HARRIES
AND FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
NEW YORK
D APPLETON AND COMPANY
1922
FIRST
EDITION
1922
COPY-
RIGHT
Printed in Great Britain by the Riverside Press Limited
Edinburgh
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | DORSET FOLK AND DORSET WAYS | 13 |
| The Dorset Rustic a Genial Fellow—Unconscious Humour—TheJovial Blacksmith—Cider-making—The PoeticTippler—Anglo-Saxon Tongue—Enigmatical Sayings andProverbs—A Dorset Rector and his Ale—Whiplegs—Thatchand "Cob"—A Beautiful Tract between Seatonand West Bay—The Devil's Own Card—Thomas Hardy'sStory of Witchcraft—Conjurer Trendle—The Piskies—TheBibulous Farmer and the Piskies—The Cider Mill—HappyDays at Hovey's Barn—Marc Bricks—A Gameof "Hunting"—A Dorset Vicar on Miracles—Akermann'sWiltshire Glossary—William Barnes—"Dorset's goodenough for me!"—Large Farm Kitchens | ||
| II. | BARFORD ST MARTIN TO TISBURY AND SHAFTESBURY | 33 |
| Tisbury—John Lockwood Kipling—The Green Dragonat Barford St Martin—The Man who laughed gloriously—Pointsof Perfection in a Greyhound—The Best Dogthat ever breathed—Shaftesbury and its Traditions—ACurious Custom—A Story of Water-carrying Days atShaston—Bimport and Jude the Obscure—Old Grove'sPlace—Marnhull—Pure Drop Inn | ||
| III. | THE VALE OF BLACKMOOR | 45 |
| Fortune scowls on me—The Song of the Nightingale—ALittle Round-Faced Man—The Hauntings of WoolpitHouse—The Vale of Blackmoor—White-Hart Silver—King'sStag Inn—The Length of Life in Animals—Folk-Sayingsof Blackmoor—The Maidens of Blackmoor—Barnesthe Poet | ||
| IV. | BLANDFORD TO DORCHESTER | 59 |
| Blandford—Winterborne Whitchurch—Turberville thePoet—Milborne St Andrews—"Welland House"—Hardy'sTwo on a Tower—Puddletown—The Storyof Farmer Dribblecombe and th ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! | ||