Moonfleet

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Moonfleet (1909)
by John Meade Falkner

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A tale of smuggling by the English novelist J. Meade Falkner, first published in 1898. The book was extremely popular among children worldwide up until the 1970s, mostly for its themes of adventure and gripping storyline.

This transcription is of an edition from 1909.

109848Moonfleet1909John Meade Falkner

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BEAUJEU.	H. C. Bailey.
WHEN VALMOND CAME TO PONTIAC.	Sir Gilbert Parker.
GENTLEMAN FROM INDIANA.	Booth Tarkington.
THE ONE BEFORE.	Barry Pain.
THE LADY IN THE CASE.	Jacques Futrelle.
MR. CLUTTERBUCK'S ELECTION.	Hilaire Belloc.
THE CALL FROM THE PAST.	Leonard Merrick.
THE INVISIBLE MAN.	H. G. Wells.
THE SKIPPER'S WOOING.	W. W. Jacobs.
COUSIN IVO.	Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick.
COUNT ANTONIO.	Anthony Hope.
SHANGHAIED.	Frank Norris.
THE BLAZED TRAIL.	Stewart Edward White.
LOVE AND THE SPY.	Mr. and Mrs. Williamson.
THE HOUSE OF LYNCH.	Leonard Merrick.
SHINING FERRY.	"Q."
MAKING OF A MARCHIONESS.	Frances H. Burnett.
CAPTAIN MARGARET.	John Masefield.
THE GREY KNIGHT.	Mrs. Henry de la Pasture.
THE PRINCESS SOPHIA.	E. F. Benson.
SIR GEORGE TRESSADY.	Mrs. Humphry Ward.
THE FARM OF THE DAGGER.	Eden Phillpotts.
THE PROFESSOR ON THE CASE.	Jacques Futrelle.
LOVE AND THE SOUL HUNTERS.	John O. Hobbes.
THE SECRET OF THE LEAGUE.	Ernest Bramah.
THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON.	H. G. Wells.
KATHARINE FRENSHAM.	Beatrice Harraden.
KIPPS.	H. G. Wells.
RAFFLES.	E. W. Hornung.
THE FOOD OF THE GODS.	H. G. Wells.
WHITE FANG.	Jack London.
LOVE AND MR. LEWISHAM.	H. G. Wells.
FORTUNE OF CHRISTINA M'NAB.	S. Macnaughtan.

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Elzevir’s answer was to cock the pistol, and prime the powder in the pan.

Moonfleet

J. MEADE FALKNER

Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, Edinburgh, and New York

TO ALL MOHUNESOF FLEET AND MOONFLEETIN AGRO DORCESTRENSILIVING OR DEAD.

CONTENTS.

I.	In Moonfleet Village	7
II.	The Floods	21
III.	A Discovery	35
IV.	In the Vault	51
V.	The Rescue	71
VI.	An Assault	78
VII.	An Auction	87
VIII.	The Landing	98
IX.	A Judgment	113
X.	The Escape	122
XI.	The Sea-cave	142
XII.	A Funeral	153
XIII.	An Interview	174
XIV.	The Well-House	188
XV.	The Well	199
XVI.	The Jewel	212
XVII.	At Ymeguen	238
XVIII.	In the Bay	247
XIX.	On the Beach	263

Says the Cap'n to the Crew,We have slipped the Revenue. I can see the cliffs of Dover on the lee;Tip the signal to the Swan,And anchor broadside on, And out with the kegs of Eau-de-Vie,Says the Cap'n— Out with the kegs of Eau-de-Vie.

Says the Lander to his men,Get your grummets on the pin, There's a blue light burning out at sea,The windward anchors creep,And the Gauger's fast asleep, And the kegs are bobbing, one, two, three,Says the Lander— The kegs are bobbing one, two, three.

But the bold Preventive manPrimes the powder in his pan, And cries to the Posse, Follow me.We will take this smuggling gang,And those that fight shall hang Dingle dangle from the execution tree,Says the Gauger— Dingle dangle with the weary moon to see.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1930.

The longest-living author of this work died in 1932, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 92 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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