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The Vicar of Morwenstow: A Life of Robert Stephen Hawker, M.A.

By Sabine Baring-Gould.

London: King, 1876; New York: T. Whittaker, 1876.


Chapter V. The Inhabitants of Morwenstow in 1834.--Cruel Coppinger.--Whips the Parson of Kilkhampton.--Gives Tom Tape a Ride.--Tristara Pentire.--Parminter and his Dog Satan.--The Ganger's Pocket.--Wrecking.--The Wrecker and the Ravens.--The Loss of the "Margaret Quail."--The Wreck of the "Ben Coolan."--"A Croon on Hennacliff."--Letters concerning Wrecks.--The Donkeys and the Copper Ore.--The Ship "Morwenna."--Flotsam and Jetsam.--Wrecks on Nov. 14, 1875.--Bodies in Poundstock Church.--The Loss of the "Caledonia."--The Wreck of the "Phoenix" and of the "Alonzo."

 


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