CHAPTER I. When I was a young man, and full of spirits, some forty years ago or more, I lost my best and truest friend in a very s...

CHAPTER I. On the very day when Charles I. was crowned with due rejoicings--Candlemasday, in the year of our Lord 1626--a loyalty,...

CHAPTER I. The Culm, which rises in Somersetshire, and hastening into a fairer land (as the border waters wisely do) falls into the Ex...

CHAPTER I--AFTER A STORMY LIFE. To hear people talking about North Devon, and the savage part called Exmoor, you might almost think ...