seen with a pitcher in his hand, pouring water on the
ground. Now water, cast upon the ground, is known to make a shape like
that of devils.

On the road to St. Sampson, opposite the Martello tower, number 1, stand
three stones, arranged in the form of steps. Upon the platform of those
stones, now empty, stood anciently a cross, or perhaps a gallows. These
stones are full of evil influences.

Staid and worthy people, and perfectly credible witnesses, testified to
having seen Gilliatt at this spot conversing with a toad. Now there are
no toads at Guernsey. The share of Guernsey in the reptiles of the
Channel Isles consisting exclusively of the snakes. It is Jersey that
has all the toads. This toad, then, must have swum from the neighbouring
island, in order to hold converse with Gilliatt. The converse was of a
friendly kind.

These facts were clearly established; and the proof is that the three
stones are there to this day. Those who doubt it may go and see them;
and at a little distance, there is also a house on which the passer-by
may read this inscription:--

"DEALER IN CATTLE, ALIVE AND DEAD, OLD CORDAGE, IRON, BONES, AND TOBACCO
FOR CHEWING, PROMPT PAYMENT FOR GOODS, AND EVERY ATTENTION GIVEN TO
ORDERS."

A man must be sceptical indeed to contest the existence of those stones,
and of the house in question. Now both these circumstances were
injurious to the reputation of Gilliatt.

Only the most ignorant are unaware of the fact that the greatest danger
of the coasts of the Channel Islands is the King of the Auxcriniers. No
inhabitant of the seas is more redoubtable. Whoever has seen him is
certain to be wrecked between one St. Michel and the other. He is
little, being in fact a dwarf; and is deaf, in his quality of king. He
knows the names of all those who have been drowned in the seas, and the
spots where they lie. He has a profound knowledge of that great
graveyard which stretches far and wide beneath the waters of the ocean.
A head, massive in the lower part and narrow in the forehead; a squat
and corpulent figure; a skull, covered with warty excrescences; long
legs, long arms, fins for feet, claws for hands, and a sea-green
countenance; such are the chief characteristics of this king of the
waves. His claws have palms like hands; his fins human nails. Imagine a
spectral fish with the face of a human being. No power could check his
career unless he could be exorcised, or mayhap, fished up from the sea.
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