THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY REVEL.

BY

Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch.

1903

This etext prepared from a reprint of a version published in 1903

PREFACE

When I started to set down these early adventures of Harry Revel,I meant to dedicate them to my friend Mr. W. F. Collier of Woodtown,Horrabridge: but he died while the story was writing, and now cannottwit me with the pranks I have played among his stories of bygonePlymouth, nor send me his forgiveness—as he would have done.Peace be to him for a lover of Dartmoor and true gentleman of Devon!

So now I have only to beg, by way of preface, that no one will botherhimself by inquiring too curiously into the geography, topography,etc. of this tale, or of any that I have written or may write.If these tales have any sense of locality, they certainly will notsquare with the ordnance maps; and even the magnetic pole works looseand goes astray at times—a phenomenon often observed by sailors offthe sea-coast of Bohemia.

It may be permissible to add that the story which follows by no meansexhausts the adventures, civil and military, of Harry Revel. But therecital of his further campaigning in company with Mr. Benjamin Jope,and of the verses in which Miss Plinlimmon commemorated it, willdepend upon public favour.

A.T. QUILLER-COUCH.
THE HAVEN, FOWEY, March 28th, 1903.

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