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Perhaps the bait's gone off the hook. Had I better haul in the line and bait again? I was always doing that when I went fishing with Adair and his brothers, years ago, when I was a little girl." Her husband shook his head. "Have patience, Jessie," he said.
Thar's a bush 'most breakin' down with its weight of ripe and juicy thimbleberries, back of the old cedar tree. Bees have been at 'em." The next snare they visited was empty. In another a woodgrouse was caught, and in yet another a fox cub. Kiddie's steel traps were set farther away. He went first to the one about which he had been so particular. "Gee!" he exclaimed. "It's sprung! Bait's taken.
One by one the castaways would perish, and when the last of them was gone, the U-boat would steal away. "Dead bait's no good," explained the seaman.
"We couldn't carry more if we had 'em." "Then it's a good thing my bait's gone, too!" laughed Norah, winding up. "Haven't we had a most lovely time!" Jim produced a roll of canvas which turned out to be two sugar bags, and in these carefully bestowed the fish, sousing the whole thoroughly in the water.
They lost no time, and neither did the swaggie. He left the place at about the rate of a mile a minute!" Jim paused. "Thought I had a bite," he said, pulling up his line. "Bother it! The bait's gone! Chuck me a worm, young Wally." He impaled the worm and flung his line out again. "Where was I? Oh, yes.
I know now that we were perfect tyrants to him, while he, amiable giant that he was, bore it all with the greatest of equanimity, and the more unreasonable we were, the more patient he seemed to grow. We fished for some few minutes without a sign, and then Bob grew weary. "It's no good here, Big, they won't bite. Let's go on farther." "Bait's off, perhaps," suggested Bigley. "No, it isn't.
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