Our Exploits at West Poley by Thomas Hardy

While exploring a cave, two boys divert the course of a stream and set off a strange chain of events. This was Thomas Hardy's one children's story, and the circumstances of its publication are at least as interesting as the story itself. Our Exploits at West Poley was written in 1883 for serial publication in the Youth's Companion and then, despite Hardy's amenability to cutting or other alteration ("possibly the story is too juvenile for your side of the sea")...

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