I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales
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Christmas morning at Ruan Lanihale brings a storm, an unsteady church band and a young flautist distracted by his coming marriage. Arthur Quiller-Couch opens this collection of winter tales with the noisy social life of a coastal parish in the west country. Young Zeb Minards and Ruby Tresidder have their marriage banns announced just as a man bursts into the church with news of a wreck. The scene mixes village gossip, seasonal customs and physical comedy, giving the musicians almost as much attention as the anxious couple.
Danger enters the title story alongside its humour. In a later passage, Zeb takes a stranger to a secluded hollow near the coast and proposes an exchange of pistol shots. The collection also includes The Haunted Dragoon and A Blue Pantomime.
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- Author
- Arthur Quiller-Couch
- Reading time
- About 4 hours
- Pages
- 135
- Language
- English
- Genre
- British Classics
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