Devonshire Characters and Strange Events

1908

A gallery of Devon's eccentrics, worthies, rogues and odd happenings, gathered by an inveterate collector of local history and lore.

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By Sabine Baring-Gould. See the Sabine Baring-Gould author page for the full list of his Dartmoor and Devon books.

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Plate from A Book of Dartmoor, page 345, 1900

“March, he sits on his perch; April, he tunes his bill; May, he sings all day; June, he alters his tune, and July, away he do fly." So say the people.”
Sabine Baring-Gould, A Book of Dartmoor, 1907

Also on Our DartmoorThe Three Brothers — The three ageing Baskerville brothers, cheerful farmer Vivian, austere and religious Humphrey, and the popular publican Nathan, and the younger generation rising around them.

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