THE full moon rose at ten o'clock on the following night; but however fine the night, however favourable the wind and sea, no fisherman thought of going out that evening either from Hogue la Perre, or Bourdeaux harbour. or Houmet Benet, or Platon, or Port Grat, or Vazon Bay or Perrelle Bay, or Pezeries, or the Tielles or Saints' Bay, or Little Go, or any other port or little harbour in Guernsey; and the reason was very simple. A c**k had been heard to crow at noonday.
When the c**k is heard to crow at an extraordinary hour, fishing is suspended.
At dusk on that evening, however, a fisherman returning to Omptolle, met with a remarkable adventure. On the height above Houmet Paradis, beyond the Two Brayes and the Two Grunes, stands to the left the beacon of the Plattes Tougeres, representin
