s "All's Well," "Larboard Watch," "The Anchor's Weighed," etc.
Alec's tenor and my deep baritone harmonized rather well, so we
thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. As we had no hearers we used to give
wonderful expression to our singing, possibly it was lucky no one could
hear us, for it would certainly unstring their nerves.

On Sundays we did no work, but at eleven o'clock had a kind of service
which lasted quite an hour and a half. I was parson and read the
service, while Alec was clerk and read the lessons and made the
responses, while, to pass the time away, we always sang two hymns
wherever only one should be sung. This was to give each of us an
opportunity of selecting his favourites. There was no levity in all
this, we did it as a duty to our Maker, in thankfulness for the manifold
blessings bestowed upon us during the week; for our health, welfare, and
all the other blessings which He bestowed upon us from day to day. Alec
had great cause to be thankful that he had been spared ever to put foot
on land again, while I, beside my numerous lucky escapes, had not had a
day's real illness since I landed. Before I left the island, Sankey and
Moody's "Sacred Songs" would scarcely hold together, so much had it
suffered from being turned by our great rough thumbs and fingers, while
to say that some of the pages were slightly soiled was putting it in a
very mild manner. A stranger might have thought that we hid the volume
up the chimney, when not in use, and the appearance would quite have
warranted his surmise.

Our first great work together was to build another boat, a larger one
than the "Yellow Boy," and on an improved principle. First we collected
whatever we thought would be of use in the construction of our craft,
which we christened, before a stick of her was laid, "The Anglo-Franc."
This was a curious commencement, I must own, but then we did some very
strange things on Jethou. The name was chosen because we, as
shipwrights, were respectively English and French. We scoured the whole
island for material, and succeeded in getting a huge pile together from
various sources, thus we were not so cramped as when I built the famous
"Yellow Boy."

Speaking of the "Yellow Boy" reminds me that after the big storm I
saved the portion which still depended from the cable, suspended from
the side of La Fauconnaire. These pieces were the two upper strakes,
fifteen feet long, and the fore and second compartments. The timber from
thes