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From Cornwall’s Wonderland, by Mabel Quiller Couch; London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., [undated — circa 1914]; pp. iii-viii.


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CORNWALL’S   WONDERLAND

BY

MABEL QUILLER COUCH


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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.


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CONTENTS

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HOW CORINEUS FOUGHT THE CHIEF OF THE GIANTS 1

THE GIANT OF ST. MICHAEL’S MOUNT 10

THE LEGEND OF THE TAMAR, THE TAVY, AND THE TAW 20

THE STRANGE STORY OF CHERRY HONEY 30

THE FAIRIES ON THE GUMP 54

THE FAIRY OINTMENT 68

THE EXCITING ADVENTURE OF JOHN STURTRIDGE 93

THE TRUE STORY OF ANNE AND THE FAIRIES 100

BARKER AND THE BUCCAS 112

LUTEY AND THE MERMAID 118

THE WICKED SPECTRE 134

THE STORY OF THE LOVERS’ COVE 149

THE SILVER TABLE 157

CRUEL COPPINGER, THE DANE 162

MADGE FIGGY, THE WRECKER 178

HOW MADGE FIGGY GOT HER PIG 188

THE STORY OF SIR TRISTRAM AND LA BELLE ISEULT 195







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