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- Herausgeber: Clink Street Publishing
- Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016
Austin The Cornish Miner embarks on an adventure taking him underground, through dangerous tunnels and out to sea. New friends emerge in the shape of sea serpents and Austin finds himself in a race to save the lives of his magical friends underground. Enjoy the ride as the Cornish coast provides more adventure and magic that children and adults alike will enjoy and remember.
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The Adventures of Austin the Cornish Miner Book Two
The Morgawr and the Bad Knockers
Karen M Hoyle Illustration by Perry Harris
Contents
Chapter 1
The Voyage
The sun shone across the green blue sea, seagulls cried their happy call and a light welcome breeze tickled across Austin’s face. As a miner, Austin spent most of his time underground in the gloomy candlelight where the air was old, damp and smelled of Sam Summers’ pipe smoke. Austin’s job was a hard one, as a miner Austin dug at the walls of the mine, digging out tin and working with lots of other men so they could feed their families.
Today was different, today Wheal Coates Mine had an inspection and was being prepared for blasting with gunpowder. The mine owners had given all the miners a rare day off. As soon as Austin knew he had a day off he sent a message to his friend Patrick. Patrick owned a small fishing boat that he had called ‘Twice as Much’, and he also owned a small rowing boat that he used to reach the shore called ‘Half as Much’. Patrick was a pilchard fisherman and spent his life during the hours of darkness catching the slippery, six-inch fish that gather off St Michael’s Mount in vast shoals. Patrick was known for his phrase “That’s not a pilchard, that’s a sardine!” as he was very strict about the rule that a fish was pilchard if it was under six inches long, and the Cornish way was pilchards! Pilchard fishermen as a whole were an eccentric bunch; recently one known as ‘Nutty Noah’, who lived down the coast, caught so many fish that his boat sank under the weight.
Austin enjoyed meeting up with his friend Patrick and after some amazing weeks in Austin’s life in which he has encountered some new magical friends, when he had found that Knockers and Pixies really did exist, he longed to find out more about the magical world around him, and that included sea creatures. Patrick was the obvious choice to ask about anything involving the sea.
With a picnic made by his wife, Mary, Austin met Patrick at Chapel Porth Beach and they rowed out to ‘Twice as Much’, which was anchored in the glistening sunshine.
“All right, Patrick?” said Austin.
“Yeah. You?” replied Patrick.
“Yeah, beauty of a day, isn’t it,” said Austin, settling himself into the boat and taking a deep breath of sea air into his lungs that was soon followed by a dark smell of pilchard.
“I thought we’d have a sail down towards the Pointy End,” said Patrick.
The ‘Pointy End’ was always used by the Cornish to mean the farthest end of Cornwall where all land ran out and where for Austin the stories began.
“Excellent, I wanted to pick your brains on the way about some stories I have heard – a sea creature called a ‘Morgawr’?”
Patrick just looked at Austin and grinned. He raised the sails and as the boat took into the wind and started making pace he began to explain.
