E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Sue Fleming, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 39606-h.htm or 39606-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39606/pg39606-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39606/39606-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://archive.org/details/andetrembathtale00kempiala Transcriber's note: The oe-ligature is indicated by [oe]. ANDE TREMBATH To My Friend THE RIGHT REV. CORTLANDT WHITEHEAD, S.T.D. _Bishop of Pittsburgh_ In memory of pleasant hours spent together at "Burgtown." [Illustration: ANDE TREMBATH] ANDE TREMBATH A Tale of Old Cornwall England by MATT. STAN. KEMP Author of "Boss Tom" [Illustration] C. M. Clark Publishing Co., Inc. Boston, Mass., U.S.A. 1905 Copyright, 1905, by C. M. CLARK PUBLISHING CO., Inc. Boston, Mass., U.S.A. Entered at Stationer's Hall, London Foreign Copyrights Secured All Rights Reserved Contents _CHAPTERS_ PAGE I A Calamity at the Manor 1 II The Son of a Traitor 16 III The Runaway 26 IV The Primrose Cottage and Tom Glaze 31 V "The Big Ha' Bible Ance His Father's Pride" 41 VI Squire and Parliamentarian 46 VII Tea-table Politics 55 VIII "Off With His Head" 66 IX The Village Stocks 73 X Reparation 77 XI Defeat of Bully Bob Sloan 87 XII Christmas and Christmas Play 98 XIII The Cornish Droll-teller 113 XIV St. George and Fair Sabra 123 XV The Helston Grammar School 135 XVI The Hurling Match 146 XVII The Smugglers' Battle 160 XVIII The Duck Cave Adventure 173 XIX Creakle's Revenge 185 XX Adrift On the Deep 197 XXI Around the Tavern's Flaming Grate 214 XXII The Lycamahoning 240