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I had my fingers in the wall too quick for words, and brought out a little parchment bag, for all the world like those dried fish-eggs cast up on the beach that children call shepherds' purses.
It's very hard work with a good deal of manual labor involved, and there is nothing particularly attractive in a bushel of fish-eggs!" "But it's only on the start that you have to do the steady grind," Colin objected, "and one has to do that in every line of work.
Though such wee mites, it is more than six weeks since they left the egg; and, in that time, they have passed through wonderful changes, as you will see. Plaice lay a great many eggs, which float about in the sea. Most are gobbled up by those sea-creatures and they are many who love fish-eggs for dinner. From each remaining egg a baby Plaice escapes.
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