62 EXPERIENCES OF SPORT. 



" Pic-nic, tea fight, dancing, sand eels what 

 the deuce ? Holloa ! I am all right/' I said 

 springing out of bed amongst three or four who 

 stood laughing by. " I am all alive O, my boys ; 

 I remember now. Here, waiter, a bottle of soda 

 water. I will be with you in twenty minutes, 

 so be off and get the breakfast ready." 



Notwithstanding ' ' hot coppers," I managed to 

 swallow a pretty good breakfast, and in half an 

 hour afterwards was seated in a large wag- 

 gonette, amongst a lot of very pretty girls on 

 our way to La Rocque, which we soon reached, 

 and put up at a capital hotel just built there. 

 Here there was a famous large dining and ball- 

 room, and as this had been engaged we found 

 the table all laid and ready for us. As it was 

 now low water they settled we should stroll about 

 till three o'clock, and then return to dinner. 



Some of my friends went off to engage more 

 carts to. take us down at ten p.m. We mus- 

 tered about forty, so we wanted at least six or 

 seven of them. This is the only way ladies can 

 get down over these vast tracts of rocks. The 

 fishermen, and those accustomed to the place, 

 are very clever guides, but any one not knowing 



