THE HAPPY-GO-LUCKY MORGANS _BY THE SAME AUTHOR_ LIGHT AND TWILIGHT REST AND UNREST ROSE ACRE PAPERS _Small Octavo. 2s. 6d. net_ [Illustration] THE HAPPY-GO-LUCKY MORGANS “But now--O never again” THOMAS HARDY’S _Julie-Jane_ BY EDWARD THOMAS [Illustration] LONDON DUCKWORTH & CO. 3 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C. TO MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. ABERCORRAN STREET 1 II. THE MORGANS OF ABERCORRAN HOUSE 12 III. THE WILD SWANS 30 IV. HOB-Y-DERI-DANDO 38 V. AURELIUS, THE SUPERFLUOUS MAN 44 VI. OUR COUNTRY 63 VII. WOOL-GATHERING AND LYDIARD CONSTANTINE 76 VIII. ABERCORRAN AND MORGAN’S FOLLY 92 IX. MR TORRANCE, THE CHEERFUL MAN 112 X. THE HOUSE UNDER THE HILL 128 XI. MR STODHAM, THE RESPECTABLE MAN, AND THE DRYAD 154 XII. GREEN AND SCARLET 177 XIII. NED OF GLAMORGAN 186 XIV. THE CASTLE OF LEAVES, AND THE BEGGAR WITH THE LONG WHITE BEARD 207 XV. MR STODHAM SPEAKS FOR ENGLAND--FOG SUPERVENES 220 XVI. THE HOUSE OF THE DAYS OF THE YEAR 232 XVII. PHILIP AND THE OUTLAWS OF THE ISLAND 240 XVIII. WHAT WILL ROLAND DO? 254 XIX. THE INTERLUDE OF HIGH BOWER 263 XX. THE POET’S SPRING AT LYDIARD CONSTANTINE 280 THE HAPPY-GO-LUCKY MORGANS CHAPTER I ABERCORRAN STREET