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The Oystercatcher breeds also in both the small Islands, Jethou and Herm, on almost all the rocky islands to the north of Herm, in Sark and Alderney, and on Burhou, near Alderney, where I found one clutch of three of the most richly marked Oystercatcher's eggs I ever saw: these, as well as another clutch, also of three eggs, were placed on rather curious nests; they were on the smooth rock, but in both cases the birds had collected a number of small stones and made a complete pavement of them, on which they placed their eggs; there was no protection, however, to prevent the eggs from rolling off.
When he was quite close, she turned round, and he saw that she had been crying. On the grave she had put a rude cross of immortelles. "Ellenor," he said quietly, "I did not expect to see you. I thought you were yet in Sark." "I came back this morning by the early cutter. I was longing to get back home." "And we have been longing for you to come back! It is kind of you to put flowers here.
"I had to own up, of course, and then she crushed me by telling me that you were an heiress, and that Mr. Pixley probably had views of his own concerning you." "Which he had, but they happened not to coincide with mine, and so I came to Sark." "Happy day! I see you yet, standing in the hedge by the Red House, and I believing you a vision." "I could hardly believe my eyes either.
It required all my knowledge of the influence of dress on the average human mind, to convince myself that Olivia, in her coarse green serge dress, had impressed the people of Sark with the notion that she would be no unsuitable mate for their rough, though good and handsome fisherman. Was it possible that they thought her stupid?
But do you expect me to kill some of them?" "They'd kill you," said Bernel, conclusively. On second thoughts, however, he added, "But you needn't kill them. Wing one or two, and the rest will let you be. With a gun I could keep all Sark from landing on L'Etat." "Suppose they come in the night? How many landing-places are there?" "There's another at the end nighest Guernsey, but it's not easy.
Thinking from having seen the one in Sark, and from his description, that the birds might be Crossbills, I asked him to get me one or two, which he said he could easily do, as the people were destroying them on account of the damage they did. In a day or two he brought me one live and two dead Crossbills, and told me that as many as forty had been shot in one person's garden.
"What I expec, it wad be ill to say; but what I dinna expec' is to be traitit like a vaggabon. Come, I'll gie ye a guid hoor's wark for a place to wash mysel', an' put on a clean sark." "Hae ye the sark?" "I HAE't here i' my bag." "An' what du ye want to put on a clean sark for? What'll ye du whan ye hae't on?" "Gie ye anither hoor's wark for the heel o' a loaf an' a drink o' watter."
All the week they were hard at work in their fields or their boats, but on Sunday the lonely lanes leading to Little Sark were thronged with sightseers, curious to inspect the mines and the latest odd fashions among the miners' wives and daughters. Odd, and extremely useless little parasols, were then the vogue in England.
Every thing was clean, but coarse and frugal such as I expected to find about my Sark patient, in the home of a fisherman. But when my eye fell upon the face resting on the rough pillow I paused involuntarily, only just controlling an explanation of surprise. There was absolutely nothing in the surroundings to mark her as a lady, yet I felt in a moment that she was one.
So long as I was in Guernsey, when every morning I could see the arrival of the packet that had brought me, I could not shake off the fear that it was bringing some one in pursuit of me; but in Sark that would be all different.
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