Pearl of Pearl Island

clean jib with a view to putting the best possible face on matters, and were beginning to catch occasional puffs of a soft westerly breeze and to wallow slowly along,-"Ee see, time's

, as long as you

f-way to Jarsey trying to get across to Sark. An' when time's o' consekens an' you got to arn your livin'

ry some of this,"-as he began fumbling

on, who was lying on the thwarts forward, and

his?" ask

ther o' Passon Lee o' the Port," with a

e th

-rab

igger isla

im. Keeps kangyroos there an' orstrichers an' things. Don't let annyb

gh-ridged island in front, and Graeme's un

er austerity as of a stricken whale,-a mother-whale surely, for was not her young one t

ying heights and let the bare bones through; and all below the break was clean naked rock-black, cream-yellow, gray, red, brown,-with everywhere a tawny fringe of seaweed, since the

s soft with trees and bracken, and cliff-ringed bays, with wide-spread

g green island with beetling cliffs, and yawning caverns, and

en rocks below,-past the dark chasm between Brecqhou and the mainland of Sark, through which the race roared w

bility of ascent. But instead of running in there, the sails were furled and the boat nosed slowly towards the overhanging side of the cliff, where a bro

OSSELIN

to the rungs, so Graeme permitted himself no more than a careless

ted into a grim smile, while the stranger laid hold of the rusty iron and star

od upright, and did not lean over the opposite way of ladders in general,-the top rung landed him on a little p

pe and shouldered by his guardian angel

ll in, but his guides went stolidly on,-towards drink of a more palpable description, he doubted not; and he r

liff and commemorated a disaster. It was erected, he saw, to the memory of a Mr. Jeremiah Pilcher who had been drowned just below in