Kingsley's Description of Swanage--Tilly Whim--Thomas Hardy's "Knollsea"--The Quarry Folk--A Mediæval Trades Guild--Old Dorset Family Names--Marrying the Land--High Street at Swanage--Quaint Houses and a Mill-Pond--St Mary's Church--Newton Manor--Studland--The Agglestone--Langton Matravers-- Kingston--Enckworth Court--Corfe--The Greyhound Hotel--An Elizabethan Manor-House--Corfe Church--A Brave Good Chest--Curfew--Churchwardens and the Degrees of Inebriation--Reward for killing a Fox--Lonely Kingdom of an Inn--Wareham--Wild Life on the Frome--Wareham once a Port--The "Bloody Bank"--Peter of Pomfret--Meaning of the Name Wareham--Bishop Cating--St Mary's Church--"Black Bear" and "Red Lion"--Chapel of St Martin XI. MY ADVENTURE WITH A MERRY ROGUE 191 My Sentimentalism over old Inns, old Ale and old Drinking Vessels--Morcombe Lake--"Dorset Knobs"--The Lonely Singer--The Leather Black Jack--Sleeping with Miss Green--Lyme Regis--The Curiosity Shop--"The Spirit of the Artist and the Soul of a Rogue"--We are all Rogues! XII. THE DEVON AND DORSET BORDERLAND 207 Stirring Events--Duke of Monmouth--New Inn--Youth beckons with Magic Poignancy--Smuggling Days--Buddle River Manners--The Cobb--Granny's Teeth--Buddle Bridge--Town Hall--Henry Fielding--Church of St Michael--Broad Street--The Master Smith of Lyme--M'Neill Whistler--Old Songs--Beware of Late Shooting--Axminster--George Inn--Musbury--Colyton--Knightly Poles--"Little Choke-Bone"--The Courtenays--A Rare British Flower--Lambert's Castle--Charmouth--Charles II. XIII. RAMBLES AROUND BRIDPORT 230 Toller of the Pigs--Noble Windows--Whyford Eagle--A Curious Tympanum--A Remarkable Oven--Rampisham--"The Tiger's Head"--Cross-in-Hand--Alec D'Urberville--Batcombe-- Conjuring Minterne--The Conjurer of Bygone Days--Hardy's Story, "The Withered Arm"--Minterne's Tomb--Kipling and a Sussex "Conjurer"--Bridport--Charles II.--Hardy's _Fellow Townsmen_--"Greyhound Hotel"--A Lover of Horses--"Bucky Doo"--"The Bull" and Thomas Hardy--Footpath to West Bay--The Chesil Beach--The "Anchor Inn" at Seatown XIV. ROUND ABOUT BEAMINSTER 244 Beaminster--Lewson Hill and Pil'son Pen--Blue Vinny Cheese--"Trinkrums" on a Church--An Eerie Story-- Netherbury--Robert Morgan and his "Feeble Hedde" A GLOSSARY OF WEST-COUNTRY PROVINCIALISMS 249 Chosen in part from _Notes and Queries_; Akermann's _Wiltshire Glossary_; _The Peasant Speech of Devon_, by Sarah Hewett; Crossing's _Folk Rhymes of Devon_; _The Saxon-English_, by W. Barnes; The Works of Thomas Hardy; and many Sources not generally known ILLUSTRATIONS Birthplace of Thomas Hardy _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE Stocks at Tollard Royal 34 The Green Dragon at Barford St Martin 38 The Giant, Cerne Abbas 92 Bingham's Melcombe 100