nd, and
it is therefore very difficult to imagine from whence the savages came
who were about to convert Friday into a _fricassee_. The Friday of our
story, y'clept Monday, came to Jethou in a natural if in an exciting
manner, and it will be found that everything else in the narrative, if
not an _exact_ account of what really did happen, is at least feasible.
It is in fact a practicable narrative, served up in a plain, ungarnished
form, except that to make it more palatable to the general reader a
little love-story has been introduced towards the conclusion, which, it
is hoped, sustains the interest right to the last, and makes the volume
end as all good books should, by allowing the principal actors to "live
happily ever after."

E. R. SUFFLING (HARRY NILFORD).

_Blomfield Lodge_,
_Portsdown Road_,
_London, W._

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. PAGE

My birth and home--My pretty cousin--Accident to the
"Kittywich"--Journey to Guernsey--Pleading to become
a Crusoe--My wish granted--Outfit secured--Sail
to Jethou 9

CHAPTER II.

I take possession of the Island--Landing stores--A grand
carousal--Farewell--Alone 24

CHAPTER III.

First thoughts and impressions--A tour of the Island and
description 32

CHAPTER IV.

Farming operations--I make a plough and a cart--A
donkey hunt--Dumb helpers--My live stock 44

CHAPTER V.

Canoeing--Fish of the place--The ormer and limpet--A
curious fishing adventure--Queer captures from the
sea--Rock fish--Construct a fish pond and water-mill 55

CHAPTER VI.

"Flapp," the gull--Surgical operation--The gull who refused
to die--Taxidermy extraordinary--Feathered friends--Snakes 69

CHAPTER VII.

I build a curious "box-boat"--An unpleasant night at sea--My
Sunday service--The poem, "Alexander Selkirk"--Its
applicability to my lot 79

CHAPTER VIII.

A trip to St. Sampson's harbour--A horrid porcine murder--A
voyage round Sark--Nearly capsized--Trip round
Guernsey--The pepper-box--Curiosity of tourists 93

CHAPTER IX.

Harvest operations--Explore La Creux Derrible, and nearly lose my
life--Crusoe on