Tales of the Chesapeake

About this eBook

Author

Townsend, George Alfred, 1841-1914

Credits

E-text prepared by Bethanne M. Simms, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

18126

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18126

Release Date

April 5, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TALES OF THE CHESAPEAKE — BY
2. 2.GEO. ALFRED TOWNSEND — "GATH." — NEW YORK: — AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY, — 39 AND 41 Chambers Street . — 1880.
3. 3.TO MY FATHER, — REV. STEPHEN TOWNSEND, M.D., PH.D., — WHOSE ANCESTORS EXPLORED THE CHESAPEAKE BAY IN 1623, AND WERE SETTLED ON THE POCOMOKE RIVER ALMOST TWO HUNDRED YEARS, NEAR HIS BIRTHPLACE; — WITH — THE AFFECTION OF — HIS ONLY SURVIVING SON.
4. 4.MOTHERNOOK. — THE EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND.
5. 5.TALES AND IDYLS.
6. 6.KING OF CHINCOTEAGUE.
7. 7.HAUNTED PUNGY.
8. 8.TICKING STONE.
9. 9.THE IMP IN NANJEMOY.
10. 10.THE FALL OF UTIE.
11. 11.LEGEND OF FUNKSTOWN.
12. 12.JUDGE WHALEY'S DEMON.
13. 13.A CONVENT LEGEND.
14. 14.CRUTCH, THE PAGE. — I.—CHIPS. — II.—HASH. — III.—DUST. — IV.—CAKE.
15. 15.HERMAN OF BOHEMIA MANOR. — NOTE TO HERMAN OF BOHEMIA MANOR. [1]
16. 16.KIDNAPPED.
17. 17.THE JUDGE'S LAST TUNE.
18. 18.DOMINION OVER THE FISH.
19. 19.THE CIRCUIT PREACHER.
20. 20.THE BIG IDIOT.
21. 21.A BAYSIDE IDYL.
22. 22.SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON'S NIGHT.
23. 23.THE PHANTOM ARCHITECT.
24. 24.THE LOBBY BROTHER. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V.
25. 25.POTOMAC RIVER.
26. 26.TELL-TALE FEET.
27. 27.UPPER MARLB'RO'.
28. 28.PREACHERS' SONS IN 1849.
29. 29.CHESTER RIVER.
30. 30.OLD WASHINGTON ALMSHOUSE.
31. 31.OLD ST. MARY'S.

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