shore-farms

Updated: February 28, 2025

Somehow, though I did not recognise him, I never doubted for a moment that the man belonged either to my own or the next parish. I was a newcomer in those days, you remember. ""Hulloa!" said I, "where do you come from?" "'He stared at me stupidly and jerked his thumb over his shoulder towards the west. I inferred that he came from one of the shore-farms in that direction.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts