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42 A DAY IN ALDERNEY.
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- induced to allow Min to depart , and John Wesley preached with great success on the quay of Bray Harbour .
The old church , a small , mean , building * , has been removed , but of the Passing the tower far 1 it -famed , still we stands continue Alderney , and d our bears cows walk hang on throug its ing ancient 1 h about the front town its outskirts , the and town saw read clock herds y .
. to be milked . These , sometimes called Alderney , sometimes Frenchand sometimes Guernsey cowsare generally tethered in
the fields , , and are milked three times , a day . We extended our ¦ walk into the countryand came out upon flat ground without
, hedges , and with hardly a tree to be seen , —but all seemed cared for and cultivated with pains . It may not be generally known that ,
before the militia was established , the island was guarded by women during the absence of the fishermen ; and their costume ,
which then partly consisted of bright scarlet cloaks and white caps , often struck terror into the hearts of hostile seamen , and caused
them to be mistaken for military . These women kept up large watch-fires , and were in all respects an efficient guard .
We returned to the harbour by the sea-shore , passing beautiful rocky promontories , where the waves roared with that deep and
melancholy sound Pollok must have heard when he spoke of " The grand eternal bass of _Nature ' s _antliexn , "
so different to the conventional watering-place regular beat of the tide upon a smooth and sandy beach . On one of the outlying
rocks provisions always used to be placed in a cave , so that those who miht chance to be wrecked there should not deem it an
inhospitable g shore ; but somehow or other these provisions used daily to disappearand it was discovered that hungry fishermen occasionally
resorted there , and playedJ ; he same trick naughty Norwegian boys do to _Necken .
A violent thunderstorm took place during the night , and the next morning there was so little wind that we thought we should have
been unable to get under way . Before noon a light breeze sprang and what there was of it was fairbut soon the sun burnt up the
sunset up wind , , and we suspected we remained a squall in sig was ht of coming the , Caskets on from all the day dead . Towards silence
which reigned in the forecastle , and the attitude of the men , who crowding together like so many great bears , with their shoulders up
to their ears and their eyes fixed on the horizon , were listening and "watching , as if they expected something exciting . " In squaresail "
was the first thing , of course , and then the vessel was prepared tp meet the enemy , which appeared in the form of an array of heavy
black clouds . No fresh milk next morning-, alas ! We were rolling along beautifully under squaresail somewhere near St . Alban ' s
Head . The heights near Swanage , and the great white cliffs called " Old
Harry and his wife , " were passed and admired ; then came the long ,
42 A Day In Alderney.
42 A DAY IN ALDERNEY .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 42, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/42/
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