The Silver Lining: A Guernsey Story

CHAPTER I.

THE RESULTS OF DISOBEDIENCE.

One fine summer afternoon--it was the month of June--the sea was calm, the air was still, and the sun was warm.

The mackerel boats from Cobo (a bay in the island of Guernsey) were setting sail; an old woman was detaching limpets from the rocks, and slowly, but steadily, filling up her basket. On the west side of the bay, two air-st...