A serial version for broadcasting of Crosbie Garstin 's trilogy ' The Penhales', read by Geoffrey Tandy
When Ortho Penhale ran away from school he went to the Gypsy Hernes , and he travelled about the country with them until he'd had enough of his first dose of a really hard life. Then he returned home. Here he started farming in real earnest, but a bad year ruining their crops, the tin mine with their dividends closing down, and his mother's debts, all made him look for a quicker way of making money. Thus he joined the Hernes again to trade horses. But once more he was unlucky.
In this instalment he is back at
Bosula, and finds another way of making a living-smuggling.