# The Drummer's Coat

Author: Fortescue, J. W. (John William), Sir, 1859-1933

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19801

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Drummer%27s+Coat+Fortescue&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In a deep wooded valley in the north of Devon stands the village of Ashacombe. It is but a little village, of some twenty or thirty cottages with white cob walls and low thatched roofs, running along the sunny side of the valley for a little way, and then curving downward across it to a little bridge of two tiny pointed arches, on the other side of which stands a mill with a water-wheel. For a little stream runs down this valley as down all Devonshire valleys; and as you look up the water from the bridge you can see it winding and sparkling through its margin of meadow, while the great oak woods hang still and solemn above it, till some bold green headland slopes down and shuts it from yo...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drummer-s-coat-19801/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drummer-s-coat-19801/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drummer-s-coat-19801/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drummer-s-coat-19801/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drummer-s-coat-19801/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drummer-s-coat-19801/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drummer-s-coat-19801/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drummer-s-coat-19801/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drummer-s-coat-19801/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drummer-s-coat-19801/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drummer-s-coat-19801/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drummer-s-coat-19801/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drummer-s-coat-19801/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drummer-s-coat-19801/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-drummer-s-coat-19801/chapters/14/index.md)