by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Captain Cai Hocken and Captain Tobias Hunken . . . those two grizzled veterans of the waves decide to settle down on land, at last. Made firm friends over the course of their sea-going days, they settle in the small town of Troy.

'Clean shaven now for you?' says the Barber to Captain Cai. 'Something on which you and your well-bearded friend don't agree, sir?'

'You're mistaken,' he answered. 'Between friends there's a give-an'-take, and until you understand that, you don't understand friendship. 'Bias Hunken likes me to do as I choose, and I like 'Bias to do as he chooses: by consequence o' which the more we goes our own ways the more we goes one another's!'

They have a simple plan, for a simple life. And simple it is . . . at first!

Cornish author Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, author of The Splendid Spur, writes with authority and charm about life in village and country.