Newcastle United exiteers: How have those that left this summer started at their new clubs?
From Ayoze Perez to Salomon Rondon with a bit of Joselu too - here's how Newcastle's ex-players are settling at their new clubs
by Sean McCormickNewcastle United’s squad went through a big overhaul during the summer.
Manager Rafa Benitez left the club and Steve Bruce made five signings of his own but Newcastle also shipped out a lot of players to cater for the new boys.
In total, eight senior players left the club on a permanent basis to start afresh in pastures new.
But how have they started at their new clubs? With the 2019/20 season almost a third of the way through, we assess how Newcastle's 'exiteers' have fared.
Ayoze Perez
Perez joined Leicester in a £30million deal following a brilliant end to the 2019/20 campaign.
In his five years at Newcastle, Perez scored 48 goals in 195 appearances and under Rafa Benitez he had developed into a very good Premier League forward.
The 26-year-old has not been shy in voicing his ambition to be called up to the Spain squad and after the Foxes came calling in the summer, he felt it was the right time to move on from Tyneside.
Perez scored 11 goals in 2019 for Newcastle but in nine appearances for Brendan Rodgers' side he is yet to find the net.
Used on the right-hand side of a front three, Perez started the opening four games of the season but then found himself playing second fiddle to Harvey Barnes.
However, he has since regained his place in the side and repaid Brendan Rodgers' faith with a hat-trick away at Southampton last month, as the Foxes ran out 9-0 winners.
Leicester currently sit second in the Premier League table and Perez has contributed three goals and two assists to their cause.
Mo Diame
Diame's contract was not renewed in the summer despite a successful three-year stay at Newcastle.
The Senegal international midfielder was one of Benitez's most trusted lieutenants but wanted a two-year extension when Newcastle were only willing to offer him a one-year deal.
The 32-year-old had spent 10 years in England across spells with Wigan, West Ham, Hull and the Magpies and he took the decision to move to Qatar to join Al Ahli.
The Qatari season is only six games old but Diame has been an ever-present with Al Ahli sitting seventh in the Qatar Stars League.
Diame has been used as one of two holding midfielders and is playing alongside former Premier League players Abel Hernandez, Nabil El-Zhar and Shane Lowry, as well as Paraguay international Hernan Perez.
Salomon Rondon
Newcastle were keen to sign Rondon on a permanent basis while Benitez was in charge but given the club's policy of only signing players for substantial fees when they are under 26 years of age, that was never a possibility once the Spaniard left.
Instead, Benitez signed the 30-year-old for his new side Dalian Yifang and hoped he could replicate the goalscoring form that saw him score 12 goals during a season-long loan spell with the Magpies.
The Venezuelan international has made a fairly successful start to life in China, scoring three goals and registering two assists in eight appearances.
Dalian Yifang currently sit ninth in the Chinese Super League table, while they also reached - and were subsequently beaten in - the Chinese FA Cup semi-finals.
Joselu
Joselu's effort levels during his two years at Newcastle could never be questioned. The truth was he just wasn't quite good enough to lead the line of a Premier League team.
He has now returned to Spain with Alaves and he enjoyed a very good start to the season. A debut goal against Levante was backed up by a scrappy goal against Getafe took his tally to two goals in the opening three matches of the season.
His goalscoring rate has slowed down somewhat since then but he did nab a third goal of the campaign in a 2-0 win over Real Mallorca last month, as well as a goal against Real Valladolid.
The 29-year-old now has four goals in seven appearances this term.
Kenedy
Kenedy's first loan spell at Newcastle was electric and there was talk of the move being made permanent.
The Brazilian rejoined on loan from Chelsea last season and there was much hope that the Brazilian could help Newcastle kick on.
A penalty miss in stoppage time against Cardiff in August set the tone for a miserable season on the pitch that was compounded by private, off-field issues.
Unsurprisingly, the move was not made permanent but he was given a number of opportunities to impress new Chelsea boss Frank Lampard during pre-season.
In the end, though, he joined La Liga side Getafe on a season-long loan deal. The 23-year-old has started three of Getafe's four Europa League group games but had struggled to get into the starting side in La Liga.
However, he finally got his first league start in November and he capped it by scoring the winning goal against Celta Vigo.
Kenedy has one goal and three assists so far this season, with Getafe sitting seventh in the La Liga table and second in their European League group.
Antonio Barreca
Barreca joined Newcastle on loan in January but managed just one four-minute cameo from the bench against Tottenham.
He joined back up with Monaco in the summer before returning to Italy to join Genoa on a season-long loan deal in a bid to rediscover his best form.
Despite being used as a left-back for the majority of his career, Barreca started five of Genoa's opening six games as a left-winger.
The former Italy under-21 star suffered a calf injury in a 4-0 defeat to Lazio, though, and that has since restricted him to just 26 minutes of football across the last six Serie A games.
Callum Roberts
Roberts started the year by scoring his first senior goal in a 4-2 FA Cup win over Blackburn. An unsuccessful loan spell with Colchester was followed by his release from Newcastle just months later.
Greek giants Panathinaikos were keen to sign him on a free transfer but Roberts made the decision to stay in the North East to join National League North side Blyth Spartans.
The Newcastle academy graduate has been a regular starter under Lee Clark and has enjoyed a phenomenal start to the season.
The 22-year-old has scored 10 goals in 12 games and should he keep it up, a move further up the football pyramid will surely follow next season.
Josef Yarney
Yarney was involved with the first-team during pre-season last summer but was released this summer following loan spells with Morecambe and Chesterfield last term.
The young defender has since joined Chesterfield on a permanent basis and has featured in 18 of the Spireites' 19 league games this season, scoring one goal.


I have been setting up my Open Energy Monitor system, and believe I have everything set up correctly but all my feeds continue to say inactive.
I used the emoncmspiv5avr_2may.img image with my pi which has the rfm12pi soldered and attached to the pins correctly.
I loaded the EmonTx CT123 example onto my emontx. The only thing I changed was the frequency constant. Both my pi and my emontx are running 433hz, on network group 210. My emontx is set to be node 10 while by base is 15. The emontx CT123 example has serial logging built in; so, I ran it attached to my computer and was able to see that it is indeed spitting out data.
To create my inputs I ran http://<IP_ADDRESS>/emoncms/input/post.json?node=10&csv=100,200,300. I then created a feed for each of these inputs.
All of the feeds continue to say inactive, but all the feeds say inactive.
Following advice from another thread on this topic I ran /etc/init.d/rfm12piphp restart log and checked the log file at /var/log/rfm12piphp.log, but there were no errors present and the script is running.
One thing I have noticed is that the LED on my rfm12pi only blinks once when I first boot the raspberry pi, otherwise it is just blank, should this light be blinking?
Any advice on the next step I should take in debugging this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks to everyone in the Open Energy Monitor community for all your hard work.
Re: All Feeds Inactive but Set up Seems correct
Chris, you don't manually create the inputs, as the inputs are automatically created by the system upon receipt of a data input signal from one or more of the emonTX's.
I would delete any feeds that you have created, also then delete the inputs. Reboot your RaspPi and look at the inputs page to see if any inputs have been created (sometimes takes a few seconds).
If not, look again at the log by using;
$ tail -F -n 40 /var/log/rfm12piphp.log
and you should see the input data arriving in real time. (Ctrl-C to exit!)
Paul
Re: All Feeds Inactive but Set up Seems correct
Should the two LED's (emonTx and RFM12Pi) not blink synchronously? And if not, this indicates that the receiver isn't receiving anything? The emonTx LED flashing regularly (every 2 - 5 s) and serial dataoutput indicates that the emonTx has not locked up. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's transmitting, though usually that is the case.
Re: All Feeds Inactive but Set up Seems correct
Thanks for the response. I deleted all my input and rebooted the pi. The contents of /var/log/rfm12piphp.log are
MESSAGE RX:> 15i
BASEID SET CORRECTLY
MESSAGE RX:> 4b
FREQUENCY SET CORRECTLY
MESSAGE RX:> 210g
GROUP SET CORRECTLY
The light on my emontx blinks about every 7 seconds, but the light on the rfm12pi does not. This light comes on briefly when the pi first boots then it turns off and remains off. If I turn "Broadcast time to synchronize emonGLCD" then the light on the rfm12pi blinks according to the value I provide (I am not using emonGLCD just tried that while debugging and thought I would include the results).
Now that my inputs have been deleted the input screen simply reads
"No inputs created. Inputs is the main entry point for your monitoring device. Configure your device to post values here, you may want to follow the Input API helper as a guide for generating your request."
I tried updating the rfm12pi firmware following directions at http://wiki.openenergymonitor.org/index.php?title=RFM12Pi_V2. I ran
sudo avrdude -v -c arduino -p ATMEGA328P -P /dev/ttyAMA0 -b 38400 -U flash:w:RF12_Demo_atmega328.cpp.hex
and received the following
avrdude-original: Version 5.11.1, compiled on May 23 2012 at 11:08:25
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch
System wide configuration file is "/etc/avrdude.conf"
User configuration file is "/root/.avrduderc"
User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping
Using Port : /dev/ttyAMA0
Using Programmer : arduino
Overriding Baud Rate : 38400
done with autoreset
avrdude-original: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
Could it be that there is something wrong with my rfm12pi? Any thoughts on where to go from here?
Re: All Feeds Inactive but Set up Seems correct
Hello Chris, it sounds like you've got everything set up correctly. The last error with uploading firmware would appear if the rfm12piphp script is already running, you could try calling:
sudo /etc/init.d/rfm12piphp status
to check if its running and
sudo /etc/init.d/rfm12piphp stop
to stop it if it is
But re uploading the firmware shouldnt make any difference as you have confirmed that the rfm12pi board replies correctly to a frequency and group id set which tells us the atmega and serial link between the pi and the rfm12pi board are working.
How close is your emontx to the raspberrypi? it might be worth double checking the frequencies and group id's of both are the same.
Does anything appear in the rfm12piphp.log beyond the initial setup of frequency, group and nodeid? any lines either starting with an OK or a ? mark?
Re: All Feeds Inactive but Set up Seems correct
Initially they were about the 20 ft apart. I have also tried with them right next to each other. There is nothing in the log other than the lines I posted above.
Re: All Feeds Inactive but Set up Seems correct
Hello Chris, I just checked out your order and I see you have the raspberrypi expansion board kit v1, so the above upload error is because you need to upload the attiny firmware rather than the atmega328 firmware.
I would double check the solder connections on the rfm12 modules on both the emontx and the raspberrypi expansion boards, its easy to leave a dry joint, I have done it several times.
The led on the emontx will still flash even if the radio is not sending correctly, so it could be an issue with either end.
Re: All Feeds Inactive but Set up Seems correct
OK, thanks. Good to know about the version number. I'm a bit new to soldering so that's what I was afraid of. I will re-check them and let you know if I find a resolution. Thanks for all the help, this is a very empowering project. Once I get some demos up and running I hope to help spread the word.


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From "Stupid, Stupid Operator Creatures" at Mobitopia:
"I'm not sure that this was an advert for the specific service you're talking about (football) commentaries.
Lots of the operator advertising I've seen recently (in the UK) seems to be echoing the Bob Hoskins "It's good to talk" campaign that BT ran in the 80s/90s. From what I remember reading (sorry can't remember references) the campaign was designed to stop the public from only using phones for important conversations, and to stimulate voice usage by getting people chatting and exchanging smalltalk. I've read somewhere that it had a dramatic effect on BT voice revenues.
In much the same way, operators are running advertising showing trivial uses of text messages (Vodafone), letting you try before you buy (Orange), and in this campaign emphasising that the cheapness of voice calls makes them suitable for lots of things you may not have considered before.
It's not so much about selling sports commentaries as persuading the public that mobile calls are cheap enough to not worry about, and thereby get people talking and texting more (nice safe well-understood revenue streams that don't rely on selling in new concepts or investing in new handsets/network kit)."


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@article{Karavirta:JVLCTaxonomy, title = {A comprehensive taxonomy of algorithm animation languages}, journal = {Journal of Visual Languages \& Computing}, volume = {20}, number = {1}, pages = {1--22}, year = {2010}, issn = {1045-926X}, doi = {DOI: 10.1016/j.jvlc.2009.09.001}, author = {Ville Karavirta and Ari Korhonen and Lauri Malmi and Thomas Naps} } @inproceedings{Karavirta:VilleExerciseFramework, author = {Ville Karavirta and Riku Haavisto and Erkki Kaila and Mikko-Jussi Laakso and Teemu Rajala and Tapio Salakoski}, title = {Interactive Learning Content for Introductory Computer Science Course Using the ViLLE Exercise Framework}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering}, series = {LATICE '15}, year = {2015}, isbn = {978-1-4799-9967-5}, pages = {9--16}, numpages = {8}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LaTiCE.2015.24}, doi = {10.1109/LaTiCE.2015.24}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Washington, DC, USA}, keywords = {online learning, automatic assessment, ville, learning environments, programming education} }


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By: Ryan Brownhill / @ryan_brownhill
Scalable Vector Graphics.
.class-name {background:url(thesvg.svg);}
SMIL means Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, which is an XLM-based language
Can animate attributes that CSS can't
Works in all browsers except IE and Opera Mini
Javascript library for SVG's and animations.
Javascript animation platform
Great benchmark breakdown of the different SVG animation tools by Sarah Drasner


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Let's begin by briefly reviewing the chemistry behind your curlicious curls. You are born with either naturally curly hair, or straight hair (or wavy). The amount of curl, wave, or lack thereof, is dependent on the number of disulfide bonds between hair proteins found in the hair shaft; the greater the number of links, the curlier the hair, and the fewer the number of links, the straighter the hair.
Hair is primarily composed of keratin, a protein, which grows from the follicle. Keratins, and other proteins, are formulated in the cells of the hair follicle. All of the proteins become a part of the hair shaft and contain sulfur atoms. When two sulfur atoms pair up and bond, they form a disulfide bond. If the two sulfur atoms in the same protein are at a distance, and join to form the disulfide bond, the protein will bend. This is how your curls are created.
Andre Walker,Oprah’s beloved hair stylist, created a broad-spectrum hair typing system that classifies various hair textures and breaks each hair type down into 4 types with added sub categories. I believe this chart is especially useful when determining what products to use for your hair texture. However, you must realize that this system has its limitations. First of all, most curly women and girls have at least 2 different textures of hair on their head…this chart does not address this variance. Also there are so many different sub categories that can be added to all of the curly sections categories that could and should go beyond A, B, & C. Nonetheless, I do believe it was the first and is the best classification available to date.


Tips for making a great coffee
Buy fresh, whole bean coffee
A cup of coffee is only as good as the beans you start with. If you're buying bags of preground coffee, you're doing it wrong. Instead, start with fresh, whole beans.
There's a reason most coffee companies don't provide the date for when the coffee was roasted; the stuff you find on the shelf in the grocery store has probably been there for months. Coffee reaches its peak flavor just days after it has been roasted and should be consumed within a month of its roast date.
To find fresh coffee, check local coffee shops. Some roast on the spot or source from local roasters who roast in smaller batches, which typically means fresher coffee.
Store beans properly
If you know that you are using your beans in the immediate future, you can use short mason jars or sauce jars. If you have nothing else to use, a Gatorade bottle can work.
Since you will be using your beans relatively quickly, having a jar with a wide mouth is usually optimal. Make sure that you keep as much sunlight away from the beans as possible.
Do not put the jar on your windowsill to be an easy target for the sun.
Grinding your coffee
Coffee begins to lose its flavor within 30 minutes of being ground. This being the case, it's best to grind on the spot, just before brewing a pot.
Grind size and consistency matter quite a bit, as well. Grind too coarse and you will have a weak pot of coffee. Grind too fine and you will over-extract the coffee and it will taste bitter. Most drip coffee makers call for a medium to medium-fine grind.
Unless you want to spend money on a quality automatic burr grinder, a manual hand mill is the most affordable way to achieve a nice, consistent grind, though they do require a small amount of manual labor.
Making the perfect expresso
To make the perfect espresso you need to have the proper espresso machine, a good coffee grinder, and excellent coffee. Minimally, you need a pump-driven machine delivering at least 9 bars of pressure. (Note: 1 bar = 1 Megadyne per square centimeter = 0.987 atmospheres.)
The espresso machine should have a boiler, and two sizes of portafilters (one for single, and another for double shots). Ideally, the coffee used for making espresso should be freshly roasted. For best results, try to use 100% Arabica beans. Robusta is strong, but is usually of poorer quality, having a harsher flavor.


import asyncio
import docker
from langcodes import Language
import requests
import yaml
from ..nlu_intent_rating import NLUIntentRating
from ..optimizable_nlu_framework import OptimizableNLUFramework
# Other imports only for the type hints
from typing import List
import logging
from ..global_config import GlobalConfig
from ..nlu_data_entry import NLUDataEntry
from ..nlu_data_set import NLUDataSet
def _raise_for_status(response: requests.Response, logger: logging.Logger) -> requests.Response:
"""
Check the status code of the response. If the status code suggests an error, log the response as
JSON and then raise an exception. Otherwise, return the response for further processing.
Args:
response: The response to an HTTP request by the "requests" library.
logger: The logger to log errors with.
Returns:
The response, in case it didn't fail.
Raises:
:exc:`requests.exceptions.HTTPError`: if the response indicates an error.
"""
try:
response.raise_for_status()
return response
except requests.exceptions.HTTPError as e:
logger.error(response.json(), exc_info=e)
raise
[docs]class RasaNLUFramework(OptimizableNLUFramework):
__VERSION = "latest"
# pylint: disable=arguments-differ
[docs] async def construct( # type: ignore
self,
_global_config: GlobalConfig,
pipeline: str,
*args,
timeout: int = 10,
**kwargs
) -> None:
"""
Args:
_global_config: Global configuration for the whole test framework.
pipeline: The pipeline to use by Rasa NLU. Must be either "supervised" or "pretrained".
See https://rasa.com/docs/rasa/nlu/choosing-a-pipeline/ for details.
timeout: The time in seconds to wait for the Rasa HTTP server to start. Defaults to 10.
"""
await super().construct(*args, **kwargs)
if pipeline not in [ "supervised", "pretrained" ]:
raise ValueError("The pipeline must be specified as either supervised or pretrained.")
# TODO: Pipeline flexible aka based on the number of training samples?
self.__pipeline = pipeline
self.__timeout = timeout
self._logger.debug("Creating a client for the Docker daemon...")
self.__docker = docker.from_env()
# pylint: disable=attribute-defined-outside-init
async def _prepareDataSet(self, data_set: NLUDataSet) -> None:
language = Language.get(data_set.language).language
if self.__pipeline == "supervised":
pipeline_config = "supervised_embeddings"
image = "rasa/rasa:{}".format(self.__VERSION)
if self.__pipeline == "pretrained":
pipeline_config = "pretrained_embeddings_spacy"
# In theory it should be enough to install rasa/rasa:latest-spacy-{language}, but in
# practice the training fails in these images due to the spaCy models not being found.
# This bug is reported in the Rasa repo: https://github.com/RasaHQ/rasa/issues/4789
image = "rasa/rasa:{}-spacy-{}".format(self.__VERSION, language)
# Create the Rasa config
self.__rasa_config_yml = yaml.dump({ "language": language, "pipeline": pipeline_config })
# Connect to the Docker daemon and pull the Rasa container
self._logger.info("Preparing the docker container for Rasa...")
self._logger.debug("Pulling Rasa image \"%s\"...", image)
self.__docker.images.pull(image)
self._logger.debug("Starting the Rasa HTTP server...")
self.__container = self.__docker.containers.run(
image,
# Run the Rasa server and enable the HTTP API
[ "run", "--enable-api" ],
# Automatically remove the container after the server shuts down
auto_remove=True,
# Don't wait for the command to finish
detach=True,
# Expose port 5005 (used for HTTP by Rasa) for TCP traffic to a random port
ports={ "5005/tcp": None }
)
# Update the container information from the Docker daemon
self.__container.reload()
# Extract the port mapping and build the base url for the HTTP API
port_mapping = self.__container.attrs["NetworkSettings"]["Ports"]["5005/tcp"][0]
self.__url = "http://{}:{}/".format(port_mapping["HostIp"], port_mapping["HostPort"])
self._logger.debug("Waiting for the health endpoint to come alive...")
for _ in range(self.__timeout):
try:
success = requests.get(self.__url).status_code == 200
except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:
success = False
if success:
break
await asyncio.sleep(1)
self._logger.info("Container running.")
[docs] async def unprepareDataSet(self) -> None:
self.__container.stop()
del self.__rasa_config_yml
del self.__container
del self.__url
# pylint: disable=attribute-defined-outside-init
[docs] async def train(self, training_data: List[NLUDataEntry]) -> None:
# Build the training data structure as required by Rasa
training_markdown = ""
for intent in { x.intent for x in training_data }:
training_markdown += "## intent:{}\n".format(intent)
for entry in filter(
lambda x, intent=intent: x.intent == intent, # type: ignore
training_data):
training_markdown += "- {}\n".format(entry.sentence)
training_markdown += "\n"
self._logger.debug("Training a model...")
training_response = _raise_for_status(requests.post(self.__url + "model/train", json={
"config" : self.__rasa_config_yml,
"nlu" : training_markdown,
"force" : True,
"save_to_default_model_directory": True
}), self._logger)
file_name = training_response.headers["filename"]
self._logger.debug("Model file name: %s", file_name)
self._logger.debug("Selecting the newly trained model...")
_raise_for_status(requests.put(self.__url + "model", json={
"model_file": "models/{}".format(file_name)
}), self._logger)
self._logger.debug("Training completed.")
async def _rateIntents(self, sentence: str) -> NLUIntentRating:
response = _raise_for_status(requests.post(
self.__url + "model/parse",
json={ "text": sentence }
), self._logger).json()
return NLUIntentRating(sentence, [ (
rated_intent["name"],
rated_intent["confidence"]
) for rated_intent in response["intent_ranking"] ])
[docs] async def cleanupTraining(self) -> None:
_raise_for_status(requests.delete(self.__url + "model"), self._logger)


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THE PIRATE- WRECKER AND THE DEATH SHIP.
ONE lovely evening in the autumn, a strange ship was seen at a short distance from Cape Cornwall. The little wind there was blew from the land, but she did not avail herself of it. She was evidently permitted to drift with the tide, which was flowing southward, and curving in round Whitesand Bay towards the Land's-End. The vessel, from her peculiar rig, created no small amount of alarm amongst the fishermen, since it told them that she was manned by pirates; and a large body of men and women watched her movements from behind the rocks at Caraglose. At length, when within a couple of pistol-shots off the shore, a boat was lowered and manned. Then a man, whose limited movements show him to be heavily ironed, was brought to the side of the ship and evidently forced--for several pistols were held at his head--into the boat, which then rowed rapidly to the shore in Priest's Cove. The waves of the Atlantic Ocean fell so gently on the strand, that there was no difficulty in beaching the boat. The prisoner was made to stand up, and his ponderous chains were removed from his arms and ankles. In a frenzy of passion he attacked the sailors, but they were too many and too strong for him, and the fight terminated by his being thrown into the water, and left to scramble up on the dry sands. They pushed the boat off with a wild shout, and this man stood uttering fearful imprecations on his former comrades.
It subsequently became known that this man was so monstrously wicked that even the pirates would no longer endure him, and hence they had recourse to this means of ridding themselves of him.
It is not necessary to tell how this wretch settled himself at Tregaseal, and lived by a system of wrecking, pursued with unheard-of cruelties and cunning. "It's too frightful to tell," says my correspondent, "what was said about his doings. We scarcely believed half of the vile things we heard, till we saw what took place at his death. But one can't say he died; because he was taken off bodily. We shall never know the scores, perhaps hundreds, of ships that old sinner has brought on the cliffs, by fastening his lantern to the neck of his horse, with its head tied close to the forefoot. The horse, when driven along the cliff, would, by its motion, cause the lantern to be taken for the stern-light of a ship; then the vessel would come right in on the rocks, since those on board would expect to find plenty of sea-room; and, if any of the poor sailors escaped a watery grave, the old wretch would give them a worse death, by knocking them on the head with his hatchet, or cutting off their hands as they tried to grasp the ledges of the rocks.
A life of extreme wickedness was at length closed with circumstances of unusual terror--so terrible, that the story is told with feelings of awe even at the present day. The old wretch fought lustily with death, but at length the time of his departure came. It was in the time of the barley-harvest. Two men were in a field on the cliff, a little below the house, mowing. A universal calm prevailed, and there was not a breath of wind to stir the corn. Suddenly a breeze passed by them, and they heard the words, "The time is come, but the man isn't come." These words appeared to float in the breeze from the sea, and consequently it attracted their attention. Looking out to sea, they saw a black, heavy, square-rigged ship, with all her sails set, coming in against wind and tide, and not a hand to be seen on board. The sky became black as night around the ship, and as she came under the cliff--and she came so close that the top of the masts could scarcely be perceived--the darkness resolved itself into a lurid storm-cloud, which extended high into the air. The sun shone brilliantly over the country, except on the house of the pirate at Tregaseal--that was wrapt in the deep shadow of the cloud.
The men, in terror, left their work; they found all the neighbours gathered around the door of the pirate's cottage, none of them daring to enter it. Parson--had been sent for by the terrified peasants, this divine being celebrated for his power of driving away evil spirits.
 and using, in the paroxysms of pain, the most profane imprecations. The parson, the doctor, and two of the bravest of the fishermen, were the only persons in the room. They related that at one moment the room was as dark as the grave, and that at the next it was so light that every hair on the old man's head could be seen standing on end. The parson used all his influence to dispel the evil spirit. His powers were so potent that he reduced the devil to the size of a fly, but he could not put him out of the room. All this time the room appeared as if filled with the sea, with the waves surging violently to and fro, and one could hear the breakers roaring, as if standing on the edge of the cliff in a storm. At last there was a fearful crash of thunder, and a blaze of the intenest lightning. The house appeared on fire, and the ground shook, as if with an earthquake. All rushed in terror from the house, leaving the dying man to his fate.
The storm raged with fearful violence, but appeared to contract its dimensions.  The cloud rolled together, smaller ana smaller, and suddenly, with the blast of a whirlwind, it passed from Tregaseal to the ship, and she was impelled, amidst the flashes of lightning and roarings of thunder, away over the sea.
 As every one hated him, they all desired to remove his corpse as rapidly as possible from the sight of man. A rude coffin was rapidly prepared, and the body was carefully cased in its boards. They tell me the coffin was carried to the churchyard, but that it was too light to have contained the body, and that it was followed by a black pig, which joined the company forming the procession, nobody knew where, and disappeared nobody knew when. When they reached the church stile, a storm, similar in its character to that which heralded the wrecker's death, came on. The bearers of the coffin were obliged to leave it without the churchyard stile, and rush into the church for safety. The storm lasted long and raged with violence, and all was as dark as night. A sudden blaze of light, more vivid than before, was seen, and those who had the hardihood to look out saw that the lightning had set fire to the coffin, and it was being borne away through the air, blazing and whirling wildly in the grasp of such a whirlwind as no man ever witnessed before or since.