"Well, so I believe I do. I did not know at the time, but afterwards, when I began to tell my story; then there was a talk about it and a raking and a grubbing among old folks' memories, and there was an old woman who said she could throw some light on the subject. Her tale was that about a hundred years ago, or more perhaps, she could not be sure, there lived at the Old Hall one Squire Trewenna. The Hall has been pulled down because of the mines, and the Trewennas are all gone. Squire Trewenna was a terrible man for hunting and drinking, and was, moreover, a regular rory tory Conservative. He was a fast chap, and no good to nobody but to dogs and horses, and before he died he begged that he might be buried on the brink of the moor where he'd ridden so often and enjoyed himself so much, and had killed a tremendous big fox in the last hunt he ever went out in before gout got to his stomick. And he said he wanted no headstone over him, that fox and hounds and horses might go over his grave. Well, folks forgot, as there was no headstone, where he lay, exact, and old Betty Tregellas says she believes what we cut into was Squire Trewenna's grave. I think so too, for how else was it that when I had those teeth about me I was so possessed wi' a spirit of unrighteousness and drinking and Consarvatism? I reckon you've had a Board School education and been to the University, and are a larned man. Tell me, now, am I not right?" [Illustration] _W. Brendon & Son, Printers, Plymouth._ A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS OF METHUEN AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS: LONDON 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. CONTENTS PAGE FORTHCOMING BOOKS, 338 POETRY, 344 BELLES LETTRES, ANTHOLOGIES, ETC., 345 ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, 346 HISTORY, 347 BIOGRAPHY, 350 TRAVEL, ADVENTURE AND TOPOGRAPHY, 351 NAVAL AND MILITARY, 353 GENERAL LITERATURE, 354 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 356 PHILOSOPHY, 356 THEOLOGY, 357 FICTION, 360 BOOKS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS, 370 THE PEACOCK LIBRARY, 370 UNIVERSITY EXTENSION SERIES, 371 SOCIAL QUESTIONS OF TO-DAY, 372 CLASSICAL TRANSLATIONS, 373 EDUCATIONAL BOOKS, 373 SEPTEMBER 1898 MESSRS. METHUEN'S ANNOUNCEMENTS Travel and Adventure NORTHWARD: OVER THE GREAT ICE. By R. E. PEARY. With over 800 Illustrations, Maps and Diagrams. _Two Volumes._ 1100 pp. _Demy_ 8_vo._ 32_s._ _net._