Thomas Hardy's Dorset by R. Thurston (Robert Thurston) Hopkins

Author:R. Thurston (Robert Thurston) Hopkins [Hopkins, R. Thurston]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781298196910
Google: SIdZrgEACAAJ
Goodreads: 43773478
Publisher: Creative Media Partners, LLC
Published: 2015-02-18T18:32:48+00:00

Nor is there one to-day

To speak them good or ill;

There is nothing more to say."

There is reason to believe that the rustics in Wilts and Dorset who bear different forms of the name Turberville, altered into Tellafield and Troublefield, are in truth the descendants of illegitimate branches of the family. One ancient Dorset rustic with the name of Tollafield, who aroused my interest, said to me in all seriousness that he would not care to go rummaging into the history of the old Turberville people. "You depend upon it, they were a bad lot—the parson told me so. There is no telling what them folks' speerits might not be up to, if so be the old devil had got ahold on 'em." This rustic, though an old man, had an eye as keen as a hawk's, was a man of immensely powerful frame, and would sleep under a hedge any night and feel little the worse for it. When I looked at his clear, hard blue eyes and straight, haughty nose he gave me the feeling that the Turberville blood had really survived in him. Then I learned that he was a flagrant poacher and, like the old earth-stopper in Masefield's poem,

"His snares made many a rabbit die.

On moony nights he found it pleasant

To stare the woods for roosting pheasants

Up near the tree-trunk on the bough.

He never trod behind a plough.

He and his two sons got their food

From wild things in the field and wood."

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