Well, the period had arrived when this unholy promise was to be fulfilled. Yorkshire Jack was returning from the Mediterranean in a fruit-ship. He was met by the devil and Sarah Polgrain far out at sea, off the Land's-End. Jack would not accompany them willingly, so they followed the ship for days, during all which time she was involved in a storm. Eventually Jack was washed from the deck, by such a wave as the oldest sailor had never seen; and presently, amidst loud thunders and flashing lightnings, riding as it were in a black cloud, three figures were seen passing onward. These were the devil, Sarah Polgrain, and Yorkshire Jack; and this was the cause of the storm.

"It is all true, as you may learn if you will inquire," said the old woman; "for many of her kin live in Church

town."

IN

THE LUGGER OF CROFT PASCO POOL.

N the midst of the dreary waste of Gornhilly, which occupies a large portion of the Lizard promontory, is a large piece of water known as "Croft Pasco Pool," where it is said at night the form of a ghostly vessel may be seen floating with lug-sails spread. A more dreary, weird spot could hardly be selected for a witches' meeting; and the Lizard folks were always a fact-careful to be back before dark, preferring to suffer inconvenience, to risking a sight of the ghostly lugger. Unbelieving people attributed the origin of the tradition to a white horse seen in a dim twilight standing in the shallow water; but this was indignantly rejected by the mass of the residents.

APPENDIX.

APPENDIX.

IT

(A.)

THE POEM OF THE WRESTLING.*

T may be here remarked as something more than accidental, that Magog is a well-known Oriental giant, that Gog and Magog figure in the Guildhall of London, and that Gogmagog was the champion selected for a trial of strength with Corineus.

Amongst the ragged Cleeves those monstrous giants sought:
Who (of their dreadful kind) t' appal the Trojans brought
Great Gogmagog, an oake that by the roots could teare;
So mighty were (that time) the men who lived there:
But, for the use of armes he did not understand,
(Except some rock or tree, that coming next to hand,
He raised out of the earth to execute his rage,)

He challenge makes for strength, and offereth there his gage,
Which Corin taketh up, to answer by and by,

Upon this sonne of earth his utmost power to try.

All, doubtful to which part the victory should goe,
Upon that loftie place at Plimmouth, called the Hoe,
Those mightie wrastlers met; with many an irefull looke,
Who threat'ned as the one hold of the other tooke:
But, grappled, glowing fire shines in their sparkling eyes,
And, whilst at length of arme one from the other lyes,
Their lusty sinewes swell like cables, as they strive

Their feet such trampling make, as though they forced to drive
A thunder out of earth, which stagger'd with the weight;

Thus either's utmost force urged to the greatest height,

Whilst one upon his hips the other seeks to lift,

And th' adverse (by a turn) doth from his cunning shift,

Their short-fetcht troubled breath a hollow noise doth make,
Like bellows of a forge. Then Corin up doth take

The giant 'twixt the groins; and voiding of his hold,

* From Drayton's "Polyolbion."