halmer's

Updated: June 5, 2025

In those days the Broad country was a very wild land, half of it swamp. My father gave me a coracle on my tenth birthday. I was a hardy boy, much older than my years, like so many only children. I used to go away, sometimes, for two or three days together, with my friend John Halmer, Captain Halmer's son, taking some bread, with a blanket or two, as my ship's stores.

John Masefield - Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger