MICAH CLARKE

 

HIS STATEMENT AS MADE TO HIS THREE GRANDCHILDREN JOSEPH, GERVAS, AND REUBEN DURING THE HARD WINTER OF 1734

 

By

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

 


CONTENTS:

 

Chapter I. Of Cornet Joseph Clarke of the Ironsides. 3

Chapter II Of my going to school and of my coming thence. 9

Chapter III Of Two Friends of my Youth. 17

Chapter IV. Of the Strange Fish that we Caught at Spithead. 20

Chapter V. Of the Man with the Drooping Lids. 27

Chapter VI. Of the Letter that came from the Lowlands. 32

Chapter VII. Of the Horseman who rode from the West 43

Chapter VIII. Of our Start for the Wars. 48

Chapter IX. Of a Passage of Arms at the Blue Boar 57

Chapter X. Of our Perilous Adventure on the Plain. 63

Chapter XI. Of the Lonely Man and the Gold Chest 74

Chapter XII. Of certain Passages upon the Moor 82

Chapter XIII. Of Sir Gervas Jerome, Knight Banneret of the County of Surrey. 91

Chapter XIV. Of the Stiff-legged Parson and his Flock. 101

Chapter XV. Of our Brush with the King's Dragoons. 108

Chapter XVI. Of our Coming to Taunton. 118

Chapter XVII. Of the Gathering in the Market-square. 124

Chapter XVIII. Of Master Stephen Timewell, Mayor of Taunton.