Maison du Neuf Chemin.
September.
On the Sundays in September it was the custom, at any rate in the early part of this century, to ride out to the “Maison du Neuf Chemin,” at St. Saviour’s, which was kept by a man called Alexandre. There they would eat pancakes, apples and pears, and not come home till dusk. This is the “Mess Alissandre” to whom Métivier alludes in “La Chanson des Alexandriens,” “Rimes Guernesiaises,” 1831, p. 52.
“Vouloüs passair dans l’pu bel endret d’l’île
Une a’ r’levaie sans paine et sans chagrin!
Tournai mé l’dos ès sales pavais d’la ville,
Et galoppai sie l’vieil houme du Neuf-Ch’min, etc.”
[Translation].