What did you do ?" "I screamed and crawled back across the narrow bit to the cutting, and ran screaming up to the cottages at Plaisance, and Thomas Carre and his men came running down.

But they could do nothing.

They went round in a boat from the Creux, but he was dead." "And how did you get home ?" "Thomas Carre took me across and I ran on alone, but it was months before I could forget poor old Hirzel Mollet." "I should think so, indeed.

That was a terrible thing to see." The opening of the mines, and the influx of the Welsh and Cornishmen and their wives and children, with their new and up-to-date ideas of living and dressing, had wrought a great and not altogether wholesome change upon the original inhabitants.
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.

The miners' women-folk flaunted these before the dazzled eyes of the Sark girls, and Sark forthwith burst into flower of many-coloured parasols.
The mine ladies dressed in printed cottons of strange and wonderful patterns.