Changing Winds

tart Point. It lies in the shelter of two white cliffs which keep its water quiet even when the sea outside is rough, and so i

out of the red clay of the adjoining cliffs is a sign to sailors, passing down the Channel on their homeward beat, that they ar

selves ... and the sea. There isn't a man in Boveyhayne who is pretending to be a fisherman and is really a cadger on summer visitors. Some of them won't be bothered to take people out in rowing-boats-they feel that that is work for the old. I used to wonder," she went on, "why it was that I didn't really like the villagers in other places, but I never found out why until I came to Boveyhayne, and it w

liked to listen to her, and so he did not interrupt her, except to say "Yes"

in England?" she

s," he

r be in England

iked being at Rumpell's with Gilbert and Roger and Ninian, and now he

better than you like pl

replied. "I hadn't

yne. Perhaps, in the summer, Gi

at that would be

ch where the trawlers were now being hauled up by the aid of hand winches. Henry could see Mary and Ninian in the group o

boats," said Mrs. Grah

they walked across the shingle to where the boats were slowly c

out their gear, were now getting ready to sell their fish. They threw out a

the side of the trawler and saw baskets of dabs and plaice and some soles and turbot and a couple of crabs. A plaice flapped helplessly and fell off th

she a

cruel? Oughtn't

e fish," she said. "Most of them are dead a

ling that the fish were suffering agoni

nd Ninian," he said to Mrs. Gra

ht," she

their way down to the boat

and dun-cows!" said Ninian, catching h

t's," Ma

had shown a dead rabbit to him, the blood dribbling from its mouth ... and the sight of a butcher's shop always filled him with nausea. He

m seized a dun-cow and struck its head on the shingle and cut it open, while another fisherman inserted

re alive,"

smacking its head against the beach. "Here you are, Jim," he

quickly and almost ran up the beach. "Hilloa,"

hat excuse he should make for his running away. "I .

right," Nin

st go all the sa

s it all," Mary

ome back present