MOONFLEET
J. MEADE FALKNER
1898
We thought there was no more behind But such a day tomorrow as today And to be a boy eternal.
Shakespeare
TO ALL MOHUNES OF FLEET AND MOONFLEET IN AGRO DORCESTRENSI LIVING OR DEAD
CONTENTS
1 IN MOONFLEET VILLAGE
2 THE FLOODS
3 A DISCOVERY
4 IN THE VAULT
5 THE RESCUE
6 AN ASSAULT
7 AN AUCTION
8 THE LANDING
9 A JUDGEMENT
10 THE ESCAPE
11 THE SEA-CAVE
12 A FUNERAL
13 AN INTERVIEW
14 THE WELL-HOUSE
15 THE WELL
16 THE JEWEL
17 AT YMEGUEN
18 IN THE BAY
19 ON THE BEACH
Says the Cap'n to the Crew, We have slipped the Revenue, I can see the cliffs of Dover on the lee: Tip the signal to the Swan, And anchor broadside on, And out with the kegs of Eau-de-Vie, Says the Cap'n: Out with the kegs of Eau-de-Vie. Says the Lander to his men, Get your grummets on the pin, There's a blue light burning out at sea. The windward anchors creep, And the Gauger's fast asleep, And the kegs are bobbing one, two, three, Says the Lander: The kegs are bobbing one, two, three.
But the bold Preventive man Primes the powder in his pan And cries to the Posse, Follow me. We will take this smuggling gang, And those that fight shall hang Dingle dangle from the execution tree, Says the Gauger: Dingle dangle with the weary moon to see.
