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with middle-class people, young, middle-aged, and old, 

 cheerful and decorous, all bound for the pilgrimage, but with 

 as little of the fanatic about them as there was of the rough 

 English jollity which you would see in a party of Sussex 

 yeomen with their wives and daughters, going in a van to 

 Ringmer Races. 



The Result of the tour was that we picked up some excel- 

 lent dishes ; and we decided, that, with coals and pro- 

 visions at their present exorbitant prices in England, the 

 wisest plan for all Englishmen, who could manage it, would 

 be to go to Brittany, for the winter, and stop there. Here 

 too is a wrinkle for Tourists via Channel Islands. Avoid 

 Guernsey on Stcnday. In fact, if you've seen Jersey, avoid 

 Guernsey in toto. Sunday at Guernsey is a day of peniten- 

 tial discipline, when necessities become luxuries. London 

 on Sunday is liveliness itself compared with Guernsey. So 

 strictly is what They call "The Sabbath" kept, that the 

 authorities of Guernsey will not allow the mails to land 

 on that day, and they are, therefore, taken on to Jersey, 

 while the visitor, anxiously looking for news from home, 

 must impatiently wait till Monday, though the expected 

 letter has arrived, and is actually lying in the Jersey post- 

 office ! 



I complained to a Guernsey man, in his glossiest Sunday 

 best. He pulled out his prayer-book, and referring to the 

 Decalogue, insisted upon its authority for the Sabbath. 



" Quite so," said I, " but The Sabbath or rest was on 

 the Seventh Day, and Saturday is the Seventh Day. To 

 be consistent, you must do as the Jews, and keep Satur- 



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