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TALES OF OUR COAST

[Illustration: _You and I used to watch the Tide come swilling in._]




Tales of Our Coast

By

S. R. CROCKETT
HAROLD FREDERIC
GILBERT PARKER
W. CLARK RUSSELL
Q.

With Twelve Illustrations by FRANK BRANGWYN

[Illustration: Logo]

New York
Dodd, Mead and Company
1898


COPYRIGHT, 1896,
BY
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY.




CONTENTS

                                PAGE
THE SMUGGLERS OF THE CLONE        13

'THERE IS SORROW ON THE SEA'      41

THE PATH OF MURTOGH               81

THE ROLL-CALL OF THE REEF        133

'THAT THERE MASON'               179




ILLUSTRATIONS

                                                        PAGE
'YOU AND I USED TO WATCH THE TIDE COME SWILLING IN' _Frontispiece_

BLACK TAGGART WAS IN WITH HIS LUGGER                      17

'I LAID A PISTOL TO HIS EAR'                              31

'MY HEART KEEPS WARM IN THINKIN' OF YOU'                  43

'YOU DROVE HIM FROM THE BOAT'                             69

SAW HIS HEAD SPIKED OVER SOUTH GATE                       83

'MY FATHER CUT HIM FREE FROM HIS DRUM'                   149

THE TRUMPETER SOUNDED THE 'REVELLY'                      165

'I KILLED A MAN'                                         169

'OLD JIM MASON'S THE WORST-TEMPERED MAN ON THE COAST