Point Lace and Diamonds
CONTENTS. PAGE Retrospection 1 A Rosebud in Lent 4 A Reformer 5 In the Record Room, Surrogate's Office 6 _De Lunatico_ 8 _Pro Patria et Gloria_ 11 After the German 15 An Idyl of the Period 17 Chivalrie 22 A Piece of Advice 24 _Zwei Koenige auf Orkadal_ 27 A Song 28 Making New Year's Calls 30 Jack and Me 34 _Les Enfants Perdus_ 37 Chinese Lanterns 40
work the winds or the waves destroyed it, and the luckless creature's
roars of anger so disturbed the countryside that the holy St. Petroc was
prevailed upon to move him once more, to a wilder part of the country,
and the saint took him to the coast near Helston.
Here Tregeagle was set to the task of carrying all the sand from the
beach below Bareppa across the estuary of the Looe river to Porthleven,
for St. Petroc knew that each tide would sweep the sand back again and
the task could never be completed. But the demons were always watching
Tregeagle, and one of them contrived one day to trip him up as he was
wading across the river. The sand poured from the huge sack Tregeagle
was carrying and dammed up the stream, thus forming the Looe Pool, which
you may see to-day just by Helston, and the Looe Bar, which separates it
from the sea.
Tregeagle's next task he is engaged upon to-day. He was taken to near
the Land's End, and there he is still endeavouring to sweep the sand
from Porthcurnow Cove round the headland of Tol-Peden-Penwith into
Nanjisal Bay, and on many a winter night if you are there you can hear
him howling and roaring at the hopelessness of his task.
These scenes of Tregeagle's labours are all situated amid most glorious
scenery. Dozmary Pool, bleak and lonely amid the Bodmin Moors, the
little chapel on the Roche Rock near St. Austell, and the beautiful Looe
Pool by Helston, that attractive little town on a hillside, which is the
tourist centre for that country full of colour, deep sheltered valleys,
CONTENTS. PAGE Retrospection 1 A Rosebud in Lent 4 A Reformer 5 In the Record Room, Surrogate's Office 6 _De Lunatico_ 8 _Pro Patria et Gloria_ 11 After the German 15 An Idyl of the Period 17 Chivalrie 22 A Piece of Advice 24 _Zwei Koenige auf Orkadal_ 27 A Song 28 Making New Year's Calls 30 Jack and Me 34 _Les Enfants Perdus_ 37 Chinese Lanterns 40