The Lawless Land (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Lawless Land England´s cultured prose, and a vocabulary created specifically for local needs. For instance, high tide is pronounced "hoye toide"; "couthy" is the Shakespearian word for able; and the other end of the village, in Banker language, is the "nather end." The mainlander is bound to be confused throughout his stay by the odd lack of variety in surnames. In the village of Rodanthe and the neighboring settlements of Waves and Salvo - the first you will come to as you drive southward from Whalebone Junction - you will be hard put to it to find anybody who is not named Midgette. It might be spelled Midgett, since even brothers spell their names differently. Down in Avon, which is perhaps the most picturesque of the villages straddling the narrow ribbon of sand, most of the residents are named Gray, with a few Williamses and Meekins thrown in for extra ballast. Elsewhere there are such family names as Jenette, Mclean, Burrus, and Farrow. The people of the Banks are grouped in a dozen or so such "clans," which are the only hint of social organization to be found. Strangely, even these clans are not exclusive or sharply defined. There are three different sets of Grays, none related to the others. Thus, Gray may marry Gray; and when the succession reaches down to children and grandchildren, the Bankers simply stop keeping track. Many of the clans are descended from pirate forbears, but upon inquiry you are likely to find that records have been conveniently lost. Many others began with shipwrecked men and women of various tongues and nationalities who took a look at the anarchic society into which they had been thrust by fate and decided they liked it enough to settle down. One such is the family of Hilda Ballance, who drives the state´s bookmobile library down the Banks. She recalls the story of Great Grandfather Meekins, whose ship was wrecked on the quicksand are of Diamond Shoals. The evidence that he liked the Banks is inscribed in a beautiful and cultured Elizabethan script in the family Bible. He stayed on, and his children and their children grew up healthy, strong, and little concerned with education, since all that was needed for happy existence was an appetite and a hand to lift to one´s mouth the bounty of a rich land and a richer sea. The cultured handwriting gradually deteriorated until, in later generations, it became a careless scrawl which was barely readable. Some of the history of the Bankers used to be graven on headstones in lonely plots by the sea. Violent waters swept over the graves, and winds drifted the sandy soil until, eventually, the children of the villages would be startled in the midst of play when one would pick up a bit of substance unknown to any of them. They would take it home and parents would smile and tell them, "That is known as a stone, and it comes from the country over yonder. Once it was part of a grave out there on the beaches." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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