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On fine nights he had a favourite rock just outside Ogo Vean you can see it from the top of the cliff and there he'd lie asleep and dare 'em; out of reach, but plain enough to see, even in the dark, because of his white skin.
Harry is Honest Root-gatherer, and he is Francis le Vean. If I'd not been away I should have had two names." "You can easily have two names," said I. "We'll call the Dwarf Thomas Brown." Chris shook his big head. "No, no. That wasn't his name; I know it wasn't. It's only stuff. I want another name out of the old book." I dared not tell him that the Dwarf was not in the old book.
"Cruel fashion weather for pilchur fishin' us have had cruel fashion weather. I knawed 'tweer comin', same as Noah knawed 'fore the flood, 'cause the Lard tawld me. 'Forty years long was I grieved wi' this generation. But man tries the patience o' God these days. We'm like the Ruan Vean men: 'doan't knaw an' won't larn." "Iss fay, mister, true 'nough; but tell me 'bout 'e all an' an' my Joan.
"Are you sure it's a good-enough one?" asked Harry, with a grave and remorseful air; "because, if not, you must take Francis le Vean. Girls are called Frances sometimes." I explained, and I read aloud the bit that had struck my fancy. His letter was on his mind. But Adela was truly delighted. "Oh, Mary," she said. "It is lovely. And it just suits you. It suits you much better than being a Queen."
"There's an old adit hereabouts eh? that leads down to a cave.... Come, come, my good man, you don't deceive me by putting on that stupid face! We don't allow smuggling on the Islands in these days, and I like to know the secrets of my own property. The cave is called Ogo Vean, or something like it; and if I must explain more precisely, it is where you and your father used to go hunting seals."
"I'll be the Honestest Root-gatherer," said Harry. "I'll take up Dandelion roots to the very bottom, and sell them to the King's Apothecary to make Dandelion tea of." "That's a good idea of yours, Harry," said Arthur. "I shall be John Parkinson " "My name is Francis le Vean," said Harry. "King's Apothecary and Herbarist," continued Arthur, disdaining the interruption.
We are particularly fond of Daffodils, and she had several kinds of Daffodils, from the "Primrose Peerlesse," "of a sweet but stuffing scent," to "the least Daffodil of all," which the book says "was brought to us by a Frenchman called Francis le Vean, the honestest root-gatherer that ever came over to us."
Some of them were natives of the country, and some of them were brought to her from countries far away, by men called Root-gatherers. There were very beautiful Daffodils in the Earthly Paradise, but the smallest of all the Daffodils " "A Dwarf, like the Hunchback?" said Harry. "The Dwarf Daffodil of all was brought to her by a man called Francis le Vean."
I reined up the mare and then, in the same motion, wheeled her sharp to the right. High above, on the hillside, a voice was calling. I look'd up. She was not calling to me, but to her team: and as I put Molly at the slope, her chant rose and fell in the mournfullest singsong. "So-hoa! Oop Comely Vean! oop, then o-oop!" I rose in my stirrups and shouted.
Well, they tell me that if you follow the adit for fifty yards you come to a kind of pit that breaks straight down and through the roof of a cave Ogo Vean, they call it to the west of Piper's Hole, and this cave fairly swarmed with seals.
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