 When, at last, it comes, there is a sudden change of plan. — a wild rush to the more favoured grounds. It is in this scramble that" many a skipper makes his great mistake. I was talking with a disconsolate young fellow in a northern harbour where the...  Dr. Grenfell's Parish: The Deep Sea Fisherman - Page 72by Norman Duncan - 1905 - 155 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1904 - 878 pages
...skipper makes his great mistake. I was tiilking with a disconsolate young fellow in a northern harbor where the fish were running thick. The schooners were...trap when I did," said he, " I'd been loaded an' off homo. Sure, zur, would you believe it? but I had the berth off the point. Off the point — the berth... | |
 | norman duncan - 1905 - 212 pages
...had no berth, and was doing but poorly with the passing days. " If I hadn't—if I only hadn't—took up me trap when I did," said he, " I'd been loaded...believe it ? but I had the berth off the point. Off the point—the berth off the point!" he repeated, earnestly, his eyes wide. "An', look! I hears they's... | |
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