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The Captain of the Wight

by Frank Cowper

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — How the Gerfalcon Sped
  3. 3Chapter II — How the Fledgling Left the Nest
  4. 4Chapter III — Of the Fledgling Rejoicing in His Freedom
  5. 5Chapter IV — How the Fledgling Grew to a Cockerel
  6. 6Chapter V — Of the Coming to the Isle of Wight
  7. 7Chapter VI — How They Came to Carisbrooke Castle
  8. 8Chapter VII — How the Cockerel Showed Fight
  9. 9Chapter VIII — How the Cockerel Got a Fall
  10. 10Chapter IX — How the Cockerel Learnt Hardihood
  11. 11Chapter X — How the Cockerel Vaunted Himself
  12. 12Chapter XI — How Joyously Life Goeth
  13. 13Chapter XII — How the Cockerel Felt He Was but a Cockerel
  14. 14Chapter XIII — Of the Sharpening of the Cockerel’s Spurs
  15. 15Chapter XIV — How the Cockerel Used His Spurs
  16. 16Chapter XV — How the Cockerel Crowed
  17. 17Chapter XVI — How the Cockerel Was Petted
  18. 18Chapter XVII — How They Were at Fault
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — How the Rusty Knight Let the Sun Go Down on His Wrath
  20. 20Chapter XIX — Of the Perplexity of the Little Maid
  21. 21Chapter XX — How the Captain Kept Tryst
  22. 22Chapter XXI — Of the Combat à Outrance
  23. 23Chapter XXII — Of the Voice of the Charmer
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — How They Left the Wight
  25. 25Chapter XXIV — Of “la Beale France”
  26. 26Chapter XXV — Of St Aubin du Cormier
  27. 27Chapter XXVI — How “The Flowers of the Forest Were a’ Wede Away”
  28. 28Chapter XXVII — “Of the Crawling Tide”
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII — How the Sea Mist Rose in Terquete Bay
  30. 30Chapter XXIX — How There’s No Cloud Without Its Silver Lining

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