Townsend, the war correspondent who signed himself Gath, grew up on the Delmarva peninsula and returned to it in these stories and poems. They tell of oyster fleets and seine-haulers, the self-styled King of Chincoteague, a haunted pungy, and the old houses and people of the Chesapeake shore, with idylls in verse among the tales.
A regional collection of 1880, valuable for its picture of tidewater Maryland and Virginia; its racial attitudes are those of its day. Download the free EPUB.