Fearful Pleasures

vii • Foreword, by A. E. Coppard 3 • Adam and Eve and Pinch Me 18 • Clorinda Walks in Heaven 25 • The Elixir of Youth 37 • Simple Simon 48 • Old Martin 69 • The Bogie Man 94 • Polly Morgan 114 • The Gollan 123 • The Post Office and the Serpent 127 • Crotty Shinkwin 140 • Ahoy, Sailor Boy! 157 • Gone Away 171 • Rocky and the Bailiff 181 • Ale Celestial? 189 • The Fair Young Willowy Tree 199 • Father Raven 208 • The Drum 223 • Cheese 244 • The Homeless One 253 • The Kisstruck Bogie 265 • The Tiger 280 • The Gruesome Fit