M. E. FRANCIS

(Mrs FRANCIS BLUNDELL)

METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON

First Published in 1907

TO
MY DEAR FRIEND
ELINOR, LADY D’OYLY
KNOWN AND BELOVED BY DORSET FOLK OF ALL GRADES,
AND ALL AGES

“Write me as one who loves his fellow-men.”

CONTENTS

PAGE
Tranter Sally [1]
“Lwonesome Lizzie” [17]
Jess Domeny on Strike [47]
“Jarge’s Little ’Ooman” [70]
Ann-Car’line [86]
One Another’s Burdens [105]
How Ned Blanchard Emigrated [120]
Farmer Barnes’ Dilemma [150]
The Missus’s Chair [172]
The Rules o’ The House [187]
Lady Lucy [209]
A Prisoner of War [244]
Through the Cottage Window [257]
April Fools [277]

TRANTER SALLY

The wayside hedgerow, gay with its autumn tints, stretched its undulating length beside the rather stony lane that wound upwards from the high road, and lost itself amid a multiplicity of sheep-tracks on the down.