EDITOR’S NOTE.--When in Sark in 1896 I was told by one of the old Sark men, how a Sark fisherman defeated the Devil. This fisherman was supposed to be given to witchcraft, and one day he succeeded in raising the Devil, when Satan appeared and asked him what commands he had for him. The fisherman had nothing to say. Finally he said, “You must carry me where I tell you.” They were then on the far end of Little Sark. So the Devil consented, but on the understanding that when they reached their destination, the man, in his turn, should do what Satan commanded. So the man mounted on Satan’s back, and first was carried across the Coupée. “_Allez plus loin_,” (Go farther) said the man. Then they went on to the Carrefour, near where the Bel Air Hotel now is. “_Allez plus loin_,” said the man when Satan stopped for a rest. Then they reached the Port du Moulin, where the fisherman’s cottage stood. “_Au nom du Grand Dieu--Arrêtez!_” (In God’s name--Stop!) At that the Devil had to put him down and fly away shrieking, “for,” as the old man concluded his story, “he is powerless when God’s name is said.” CHAPTER IX. Prophetic Warnings and Ghosts. “Now there spreaden a rumour that everich night The rooms ihaunted been by many a Sprite, The Miller avoucheth, and all thereabout That they full oft hearen the Hellish Rout, Some faine they hear the gingling of Chains, And some hath heard the Psautries straines, At midnight some the headless Horse i meet, And some espien a Corse in a white Sheet; And other things, Faye, Elfin and Elfe, And shapes that Fear createn to itself.” --_Gay._ “Et chacun croit fort aisément ce qu’il craint.” --_La Fontaine._ “Now I remember those old women’s words Who in my youth would tell me winter’s tales And speak of sprites and ghosts that glide by night About the place where treasure hath been hid.” --_Marlowe’s “Jew of Venice.”_ Prophetic Warnings. “These true shadows.… Forerunning thus their bodies, may approve That all things to be done, as here we live, Are done before all times in th’other life.” --_Chapman._