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Title: The Mayor of Troy

Author: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Release Date: November 10, 2006 [eBook #19751]

Language: English

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THE MAYOR OF TROY.

by

Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch.

1906
This e-text prepared from a reprint of a version published in 1906.

TO MY FRIEND
KENNETH GRAHAM
AND
THE REST OF THE CREW
OF THE
"RICHARD AND EMILY"
AND WITH APOLOGIES TO
THE MAYOR OF
LOSTWITHIEL
A BOROUGH
FOR WHICH I HAVE (WITH CAUSE)
MUCH AFFECTION AND
A VERY HIGH ESTEEM.

CONTENTS.

Chapter.

PROLOGUE.

I. OUR MAJOR.

II. OUR MAYOR.

III. THE MILLENNIUM.

IV. HOW THE TROY GALLANTS CHALLENGED THE LOOE DIEHARDS.

V. INTERFERENCE OF A GUERNSEY MERCHANT.

VI. MALBROUCK S'EN VA.

VII. THE BATTLE OF TALLAND COVE.

VIII. "COME, MY CORINNA, COME!"

IX. BY LERRYN WATER.

X. GUNNER SOBEY TURNS LOOSE THE MILLENNIUM.

XI. THE MAJOR LEAVES US.

XII. A COLD DOUCHE ON A HOT FIT.

XIII. A VERY HOT PRESS.

XIV. THE "VESUVIUS" BOMB.

XV. UP-CHANNEL.

XVI. FAREWELL TO ALBION!

XVII. MISSING!

XVIII. APOTHEOSIS.

XIX. THE RETURN.

XX. IN WHICH THE MAJOR LEARNS THAT NO MAN IS NECESSARY.

XXI. FACES IN WATER.

XXII. WINDS UP WITH A MERRY-GO-ROUND.

THE MAYOR OF TROY.

PROLOGUE.

Good wine needs no bush; but this story has to begin with an apology.

Years ago I promised myself to write a treatise on the lost Mayors of
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