The Birthright

The Birthright

Joseph Hocking, cornish novelist and United Methodist Free Church minister (1860-1937)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- TELLS HOW THE PENNINGTONS LOST PENNINGTON

-03- TELLS HOW I, JASPER PENNINGTON, TRIED TO GET MY OWN

-04- HOW I WAS ROBBED OF ELMWATER BARTON

-05- I ESCAPE FROM THE WHIPPING-POST, AND FIND MY WAY TO GRANFER FRADDAM'S CAVE

-06- I SEE NAOMI PENRYN ON ROCK CALLED THE SPANISH CAVALIER, AND RESCUE HER—WE ESCAPE FROM THE TRESIDDERS

-07- I DISCOVER ANOTHER CAVE, AND HEAR A CONVERSATION BETWEEN RICHARD TRESIDDER AND HIS SON

-08- I HEAR RICHARD TRESIDDER TELL NAOMI PENRYN'S HISTORY, AND AM IN DANGER OF BEING KILLED BY SMUGGLERS

-09- I GO TO KYNANCE COVE WITH CAP'N JACK TRUSCOTT'S GANG, AND MEET HIS DAUGHTER TAMSIN

-10- WHAT HAPPENED AT CAP'N JACK'S HOUSE—TAMSIN'S CONFESSION, AND THE SMUGGLERS' PLANS

-11- WHAT BECAME OF THE WRECKERS' LIGHT—HOW I ESCAPED AND ENTERED PENNINGTON

-12- I SEE NAOMI PENRYN, AND AM GREATLY ENCOURAGED, BUT SOON AFTER AM TAKEN PRISONER

-13- HOW MY LOVE SAVED ME

-14- BETSEY FRADDAM AND CAP'N JACK MEET

-15- I AM TAKEN PRISONER, AND AFTERWARD EXPERIENCE MANY STRANGE THINGS

-16- MY EXPERIENCE IN MY PRISON

-17- I HEAR A STRANGE NOISE IN MY PRISON

-18- TELLS OF THE MANNER OF MY ESCAPE, OF THE STRANGE MAN I MET, AND OF ELI'S STORY OF A BURIED TREASURE

-19- HOW I LEFT BEDRUTHEN STEPS AND, AFTER MEETING TAMSIN TRUSCOTT, SOUGHT FOR NAOMI

-20- TELLS HOW I CLIMBED THE WALL OF THE MANOR HOUSE GARDEN, AND WHAT I SAW

-21- HOW I FELLED A HORSE WITH MY FIST, AND CARRIED NAOMI SOUTHWARD

-22- HOW I TOOK NAOMI TO MULLION PORTH AND THEN STARTED WITH ELI TO FIND THE TREASURE

-23- HOW I FOUND THE SECRET OF THE TREASURE, AND WENT TO THE SCILLY ISLES

-24- HOW WE FOUND THE IRON BOX ON ANNETTE ISLAND, AND THE TERRIBLE ENDING TO OUR ADVENTURE

-25- TELLS OF THE STRANGE REVELATION MADE BY THE MADMAN OF BEDRUTHEN STEPS, AND OF TAMSIN TRUSCOTT'S TREACHERY

-26- HOW WE WENT TO PENNINGTON, AND HOW THE TRESIDDERS WON THE VICTORY

-27- TELLS OF MY FORTUNES IN WINNING BACK MY BIRTHRIGHT, AND FINISHES THE TALE