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A Guernseyman named Gilliatt, who was avoided by his neighbours on account of lonely habits, and a certain love of nature which the suspicious people regarded as indicating some connection with the devil, was one day returning on a rising tide from his fishing, when he fancied he saw in a certain projection of the cliff a shadow of a man.
"Oh, nothing! It's a wax nose; I have to hold it on. Fine day, ain't it? Air rather gardenny, I should say; throw us a bunch of posies, will ye, Bouton-de-Rose?" "What in the devil's name do you want here?" roared the Guernseyman, flying into a sudden passion. "Oh! keep cool cool? yes, that's the word! why don't you pack those whales in ice while you're working at 'em?
"Oh, nothing! It's a wax nose; I have to hold it on. Fine day, ain't it? Air rather gardenny, I should say; throw us a bunch of posies, will ye, Bouton-de-Rose?" "What in the devil's name do you want here?" roared the Guernseyman, flying into a sudden passion. "Oh! keep cool cool? yes, that's the word! why don't you pack those whales in ice while you're working at 'em?
I will `be honest, with you," continued McElvina to the Guernseyman, when they were out of hearing of the boatswain and the rest; "and confess that, although I wish you well, I was not pleased at meeting with you here. You addressed me as Captain McElvina that title has long been dropped.
This old man gloried in being a true Guernseyman, one of the old stock, of direct descent from those who fought for their country against the band of adventurers who invaded the island under Ivan of Wales. He did not say that the islanders had the worst of the fight. He only spoke in the patois, which Frank understood very well.
The great plough the only feast of the year that is worth anything, mutton and roast beef, ham and veal, cider by the gallon and a jovial company of good old sons of the soil. "It is horrible thus to see our old routine trampled underfoot, our ancestors' customs sneered at." Mr. Rougeant was extremely animated. Like nearly every other country Guernseyman, he was opposed to change.
This skiff may have plied between the land and that Guernseyman, for any thing I know to the contrary; but it is not a boat I wish to pull a scull in." "That was a remarkable flight!" exclaimed the elder seaman, whose faith in the character of our adventurer began to give way gradually, before such an accumulation of testimony.