The Whale Tatoo by John Ransom

The book is set in king's linen. In rural or more isolated places, history is closer to the surface. And there is this fantastic myth ofthe jersey bull. Tells about the jersey bull at the le tuve to saint clement. There would be apparently a taboo, fisherman's taboo, about going out on the low tide when you could hear the drifting across. Is was a genuine fear they had. But one man called joseph sinnell decided he would go and find it for himself. As he picked among it, deafened by this great roaring about, he found a small hole in the sashe described as a kind of pipe. He'd started off