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Micah Clarke

by Arthur Conan Doyle

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MICAH CLARKE5
HIS STATEMENT AS MADE TO HIS THREE GRANDCHILDREN JOSEPH, GERVAS, AND REUBEN DURING THE HARD WINTER OF 17345
Chapter I. Of Cornet Joseph Clarke of the Ironsides9
Chapter II. Of my going to school and of my coming thence.17
Chapter III. Of Two Friends of my Youth28
Chapter IV. Of the Strange Fish that we Caught at Spithead32
Chapter V. Of the Man with the Drooping Lids40
Chapter VI. Of the Letter that came from the Lowlands46
Chapter VII. Of the Horseman who rode from the West59
Chapter VIII. Of our Start for the Wars65
Chapter IX. Of a Passage of Arms at the Blue Boar76
Chapter X. Of our Perilous Adventure on the Plain83
Chapter XI. Of the Lonely Man and the Gold Chest96
Chapter XII. Of certain Passages upon the Moor106
Chapter XIII. Of Sir Gervas Jerome, Knight Banneret of the County of Surrey116
Chapter XIV. Of the Stiff-legged Parson and his Flock127
Chapter XV. Of our Brush with the King’s Dragoons136
Chapter XVI. Of our Coming to Taunton148
Chapter XVII. Of the Gathering in the Market-square155
Chapter XVIII. Of Master Stephen Timewell, Mayor of Taunton165
Chapter XIX. Of a Brawl in the Night185
Chapter XX. Of the Muster of the Men of the West196
Chapter XXI. Of my Hand-grips with the Brandenburger205
Chapter XXII. Of the News from Havant220
Chapter XXIII. Of the Snare on the Weston Road229
Chapter XXIV. Of the Welcome that met me at Badminton245
Chapter XXV. Of Strange Doings in the Boteler Dungeon261
Chapter XXVI. Of the Strife in the Council275
Chapter XXVII. Of the Affair near Keynsham Bridge281
Chapter XXVIII. Of the Fight in Wells Cathedral292
Chapter XXIX. Of the Great Cry from the Lonely House302
Chapter XXX. Of the Swordsman with the Brown Jacket310
Chapter XXXI. Of the Maid of the Marsh and the Bubble which rose from the Bog322
Chapter XXXII. Of the Onfall at Sedgemoor337
Chapter XXXIII. Of my Perilous Adventure at the Mill362
Chapter XXXIV. Of the Coming of Solomon Sprent375
Chapter XXXV. Of the Devil in Wig and Gown386
Chapter XXXVI. Of the End of it All409
APPENDIX415
THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE425