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Under Jasper he had learned much, but it was another matter to have some one on hand to read the signs rather than being cast upon his own resources. The fish, from the trawl-line and Pete's reports of dory work, had been running rather big.
Code and Ellinwood easily found their trawl buoy by the glimmer of the light across the water. They immediately began to plant the trawl-lines in the tubs aboard the dory. The big buoy for the end of the line they first anchored to the bottom with dory roding. Then, as Ellinwood rowed slowly, Code paid the baited trawl-line out of the tubs.
Several of them, noticing that something momentous was being discussed, were edging nearer. Pete observed this. "Skipper," he said, "we've got four or five shots of trawl-line to pick. Suppose you and I go out an' do the job? Then we can talk in peace. Feel able?" "Never better in my life. Get my dory over." "That blue one? Never again! That's bad luck fer you. Take mine." "All right.
"This knife's gum-blunt, Dan." "Ef stickin' out cable don't wake ye, guess you'd better hire a boy o' your own," said Dan, muddling about in the dusk over the tubs full of trawl-line lashed to windward of the house. "Oh, Harve, don't ye want to slip down an' git 's bait?" "Bait ez we are," said Disko. "I mistrust shag-fishin' will pay better, ez things go."
This is no catch for five shots of trawl." But Pete could not cast any light on the subject. It was certainly true that the catch from the trawl-line was small enough to be remarkable, but the men were helpless to explain the reason. For two hours they worked along the great line.
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