Chapter 12 No.12

THE ISLES OF SHOALS-continued.

"-There be land-rats and water-rats, water thieves and land thieves; I mean pirates."-Merchant of Venice.

My next excursion was to Smutty Nose, or Haley's. Seen from Star Island it shows two eminences, with a little hamlet of four houses, all having their gable-ends toward the harbor, on the nearest rising groun