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Poskitt's Nightcaps (Stories of a Yorkshire Farmer)

       The Guardian Of High Elms Farm

       A Stranger in Arcady

       The Man Who Was Nobody

       Little Miss Partridge

       The Marriage of Mr. Jarvis

       Bread Cast Upon the Waters

       William Henry and the Dairymaid

       The Spoils to the Victor

       An Arcadian Courtship

       The Way of the Comet

       Brothers in Affliction

       A Man or a Mouse

       A Deal in Odd Volumes

       The Chief Magistrate

       Other Stories

       The Ivory God

       The Other Sense

       The New Sun

       The Lighthouse on Shivering Sand

       Historical Works

       Mistress Spitfire

       Baden-Powell of Mafeking

       The Solution of a Mystery

      Novels

       Table of Contents

      Perris of the Cherry Trees

       Table of Contents

       Chapter I

       Chapter II

       Chapter III

       Chapter IV

       Chapter V

       Chapter VI

       Chapter VII

       Chapter VIII

       Chapter IX

       Chapter X

       Chapter XI

       Chapter XII

       Chapter XIII

       Chapter XIV

       Chapter XV

       Chapter XVI

       Chapter XVII

       Chapter XVIII

       Chapter XIX

       Chapter XX

       Chapter XXI

       Chapter XXII

       Chapter XXIII

       Chapter XXIV

       Table of Contents

      Pippany Webster, handy-man and only labourer to Abel Perris, the small farmer who dragged a bare living out of Cherry-trees, the little holding at the top of the hill above Martinsthorpe, came lazily up the road from the village one May afternoon, leading a horse which seemed as fully inclined to laziness as Pippany himself. Perris had left home for a day or two, and had apportioned his man a certain fixed task to accomplish by the time of his return: Pippany, lid it so pleased him, might have laboured steadily at it until that event happened. And for the whole of the first day and half of the next he had kept himself to the work, but at noon on that second day it was borne in upon him that one of the two horses, which formed the entire stable of the establishment, required shoeing, and after eating his dinner, he had led it down the hill to the smithy near the cross-roads in Martinsthorpe. There, and in the kitchen of the Dancing Bear, close by, where there was ale and tobacco and gossip, he had contrived to spend the greater part of the afternoon. He would have stayed longer amidst such pleasant surroundings, but for the fact that supper-time was approaching.

      It


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