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Cripps, the Carrier: A Woodland Tale

R. D. Blackmore

Set in 1830s rural Oxfordshire, the story follows Grace Oglander, daughter of a country squire, who is abducted through the schemes of a villainous attorney.

"Cripps, the Carrier: A Woodland Tale" by R. D. Blackmore is a novel. Set in 1830s rural Oxfordshire, the story follows Grace Oglander, daughter of a country squire, who is abducted through the schemes of a villainous attorney.

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The little village of Beckley lies, or rather lay many years ago, in the quiet embrace of old Stow Wood, well known to every Oxford man who loves the horn or fusil. This wood or forest (now broken up into many straggling copses) spread in the olden time across the main breadth of the highland to the north of Headington, between the valley of the Cherwell and the bogs of Otmoor. Beckley itself, though once approached by the Roman road from Alchester, must for many a century have nursed its rural quietude, withdrawn as it was from the stage-waggon track from High Wycombe to Chipping Norton, through Wheatley, Islip, and Bletchingdon, and lying in a tangle of narrow lanes leading only to one another. So Beckley took that cheerful view of life which enabled the fox to disdain the blandishments of the vintage, and prided itself on its happy seclusion and untutored honesty.

But as all sons of Adam must have something or other to say to the rest, and especially to his daughters, this little village carried on some commerce with the outer world; and did it through a carrier.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I. The Head of the Family.
  2. 02Chapter II. The Swing of the Pickaxe.
  3. 03Chapter III. Oakleaf Potatoes.
  4. 04Chapter IV. Cripps in a Quandary.
  5. 05Chapter V. A Ride Through the Snow.
  6. 06Chapter VI. The Public of the "Public."
  7. 07Chapter . The Best Foot Foremost.
  8. 08Chapter VIII. Balderdash.
  9. 09Chapter IX. Cripps in Affliction.
  10. 10Chapter X. All Dead Against Him.
  11. 11Chapter XI. Knocker Versus Bell-Pull.
  12. 12Chapter XII. Mr. John Smith.
  13. 13Chapter XIII. Mr. Smith Is Active.
  14. 14Chapter XIV. So Is Mr. Sharp.
  15. 15Chapter XV. A Spotted Dog.
  16. 16Chapter XVI. A Grand Smock-Frock.
  17. 17Chapter XVII. Installed at Brasenose.
  18. 18Chapter XVIII. A Flash of Light.
  19. 19Chapter XIX. A Stormy Night.
  20. 20Chapter XX. Cripps Draws the Cork.
  21. 21Chapter XXI. Cinnaminta.
  22. 22Chapter XXII. A Delicate Subject.
  23. 23Chapter XXIII. Quite Another Pair of Socks!
  24. 24Chapter XXIV. Suo Sibi Baculo.
  25. 25Chapter XXV. Miss Patch.
  26. 26Chapter XXVI. Ruts.
  27. 27Chapter XXVII. Rats.
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII. Boots on.
  29. 29Chapter XXIX. A Spider's Dinner-Party.
  30. 30Chapter XXX. The Fire-Bell.
  31. 31Chapter XXXI. Throw Physic to the Dogs.
  32. 32Chapter XXXII. Cripps on Celibacy.
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII. Kit.
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV. A Woolhopian.
  35. 35Chapter XXXV. Nightingales.
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI. May Morn.
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII. May-Day.
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII. The Dignity of the Family.
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX. A Tombstone.
  40. 40Chapter XL. Let Me Out.
  41. 41Chapter XLI. Reason and Unreason.
  42. 42Chapter . Meeting the Coach.
  43. 43Chapter XLIII. The Motive.
  44. 44Chapter XLIV. The Manner.
  45. 45Chapter XLV. The Position.
  46. 46Chapter XLVI. In the Meshes.
  47. 47Chapter XLVII. Combined Wisdom.
  48. 48Chapter XLVIII. Masculine Error.
  49. 49Chapter XLIX. Prometheus Vinctus.
  50. 50Chapter L. Feminine Error.
  51. 51Chapter LI. Unfilial.
  52. 52Chapter LII. Unpaternal.
  53. 53Chapter LIII. "This Will Do."
  54. 54Chapter LIV. Cripps Brings Home the Crown.
  55. 55Chapter LV. Smith to the Rescue.
  56. 56Chapter LVI. Fatal Accident to the Carrier.

About this edition

Author
R. D. Blackmore
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
356 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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