He unhitched his horse’s reins from the gate-post, and mounting, went at a swinging trot down the road.

CHAPTER XX

Under the salt sea’s foam it lay,

At the outermost point of a rocky bay,

A sandy, tide-pooly, cliff-bound cove

With a red-roofed fishing village above

Of irregular cottages perched up high

Amid pale yellow poppies next to the sky.

Shells, and pebbles, and wrack below,

And shrimpers shrimping all in a row,