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    The Watter’s Mou’ by Bram Stoker - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Watter’s Mou’ by Bram Stoker - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Bram Stoker’.

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    Release dateJul 17, 2017
    ISBN9781788772273
    The Watter’s Mou’ by Bram Stoker - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    Bram Stoker

    Bram Stoker (1847–1912) grew up in Ireland listening to his mother's tales of blood-drinking fairies and vampires rising from their graves. He later managed the Lyceum Theatre in London and worked as a civil servant, newspaper editor, reporter, and theater critic. Dracula, his best-known work, was published in 1897 and is hailed as one of the founding pieces of Gothic literature.  

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      The Watter’s Mou’ by Bram Stoker - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - Bram Stoker

      The Complete Works of

      BRAM STOKER

      VOLUME 3 OF 23

      The Watter’s Mou’

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2014

      Version 2

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘The Watter’s Mou’’

      Bram Stoker: Parts Edition (in 23 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78877 227 3

      Delphi Classics

      is an imprint of

      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

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      Bram Stoker: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 3 of the Delphi Classics edition of Bram Stoker in 23 Parts. It features the unabridged text of The Watter’s Mou’ from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Bram Stoker, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of Bram Stoker or the Complete Works of Bram Stoker in a single eBook.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      BRAM STOKER

      IN 23 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Novels

      1, The Primrose Path

      2, The Snake’s Pass

      3, The Watter’s Mou’

      4, The Shoulder of Shasta

      5, Dracula

      6, Miss Betty

      7, The Mystery of the Sea

      8, The Jewel of Seven Stars

      9, The Jewel of Seven Stars

      10, The Man

      11, Lady Athlyne

      12, The Lady of the Shroud

      13, The Lair of the White Worm

      The Short Story Collections

      14, Under the Sunset

      15, Snow Bound: The Record of a Theatrical Touring Party

      16, Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Stories

      17, Uncollected Short Stories

      The Vampire Sources

      18, Der Vampir by Heinrich Ossenfelder

      19, The Giaour by Lord Byron

      20, The Vampyre by Henry Colburn

      21, Varney the Vampire by James Malcolm Rymer

      22, Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

      The Biography

      23, Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving

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      The Watter’s Mou’

      The title of Stoker’s third novel relates to the the water’s mouth in Scottish dialect, referring to a river emptying into the ocean. The novel was first published in 1895 by A. Constable and Company of Westminster as part of their Acme Library series.  It is the story of a woman in love with a man whose job it is to stop poor fishermen smuggling – one of whom happens to be her father.

      The first edition

      CONTENTS

      CHAPTER I

      CHAPTER II

      CHAPTER III

      CHAPTER IV

      CHAPTER V

      CHAPTER I

      It threatened to be a wild night. All day banks of sea-fog had come and gone, sweeping on shore with the south-east wind, which is so fatal at Cruden Bay, and indeed all along the coast of Aberdeenshire, and losing themselves in the breezy expanses of the high uplands beyond. As yet the wind only came in puffs, followed by intervals of ominous calm; but the barometer had been falling for days, and the sky had on the previous night been streaked with great ‘mare’s-tails’ running in the direction of the dangerous wind. Up to early morning the wind had been south-westerly, but had then ‘backed’ to south-east; and the sudden change, no less than the backing, was ominous indeed. From the waste of sea came a ceaseless muffled roar, which seemed loudest and most full of dangerous import when it came through the mystery of the driving fog. Whenever the fog-belts would lift or disperse, or disappear inland before the gusts of wind, the sea would look as though swept with growing anger; for though there were neither big waves as during a storm, nor a great swell as after one, all the surface of the water as far as the eye could reach was covered with little waves tipped with white. Closer together grew these waves as the day wore on, the angrier ever the curl of the white water where they broke. In the North Sea it does not take long for the waves to rise; and all along the eastern edge of Buchan it was taken for granted that there would be wild work on the coast before the night was over.

      In the little look-out house on the top of the cliff over the tiny harbour of Port Erroll the coastguard on duty was pacing rapidly to and fro. Every now and again he would pause, and, lifting a field-glass from the desk, sweep the horizon from Girdleness at the south of Aberdeen, when the lifting of the mist would let him see beyond the Scaurs, away to the north, where the high cranes of the Blackman quarries at Murdoch Head seemed to cleave the sky like gigantic gallows-trees.

      He was manifestly in high spirits, and from the manner in which, one after another, he looked again and again at the Martini-Henry rifle in the rack, the navy revolver stuck muzzle down on a spike, and the cutlass in its sheath hanging on the wall, it was easy to see that his interest arose from something connected with his work as a coastguard. On the desk lay an open telegram smoothed down by his hard hands, with the brown envelope lying beside it. It gave some sort of clue to his excitement, although it did not go into detail. ‘Keep careful watch tonight; run expected; spare no efforts; most important.’

      William Barrow, popularly known as Sailor Willy, was a very young man to be a chief boatman in the preventive service, albeit that his station was one of the smallest on the coast. He had been allowed, as a reward for saving the life of his lieutenant, to join the coast service, and had been promoted to chief boatman as a further reward for a clever capture of smugglers, wherein he had shown not only great bravery, but much ability and power of rapid organisation.

      The Aberdeen coast is an important one in the way of guarding on account of the vast number of fishing-smacks which, during the season, work from Peterhead up and down the coast, and away on the North Sea right to the shores of Germany and Holland. This vast coming and going affords endless opportunities for smuggling; and, despite of all vigilance, a considerable amount of ‘stuff’ finds its way to the consumers without the formality of the Custom House. The fish traffic is a quick traffic, and its returns come all at once, so that a truly enormous staff would be requisite to examine adequately the thousand fishing-smacks

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