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Avitli a cord round his neck, halberds pointed at his breast 

 to prevent his hurrying forwards, his back streaming -with 

 blood, his face turned imploringly towards the surgeon, who 

 walked beside the executioner, and whom I once heard utter 

 the cruel words, " Harder, Jack ! " meaning that the victim 

 had strength to withstand even harder blows — a brutal mob 

 following without sympathy — the procession moving slowly 

 from the Town-Hall to the Prison ; — this was the picture 

 Justice frequently presented to the inhabitants of Jersey, and 

 which now, thank God, will never be seen by them again, 

 but will take its place among the brutalities of the past, a 

 sign of the onward progress we have made. 



Although St Heliers, " the capital of Jersey," was the spot 

 consecrated by memory, I took up my abode at the entrance 

 of the fishing-village of Gorey, just four miles from St 

 Heliers ; and as these pages are addi'essed to amateur natu- 

 ralists, some of whom may hereafter visit Jersey, a word 

 on the reason of my choice may not be superfluous. The 

 attractions of the capital I do not deny, and if the visitor is 

 in need of watering-place attractions, he will pitch his tent 

 there ; but if his primary desires be zoology and quiet, he 

 will select Gorey, especially during summer, when tide- 

 hunting is necessarily poor, and only by di'edging and trawl- 

 ing can he hope to get a good stock of animals. Always go 

 where there are fishermen, that you may have the benefit of 

 tlieir aid. They may bring you what you would never find. 

 It is true there are two sources of difficulty in your way : 

 the first is the almost impossibility of making them under- 

 stand that you can set any value on things they are accus- 

 tomed to throw away ; the second is, that when you have so 



