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Updated: May 12, 2025
"I can't think where that couple is keeping to. They might run foul of something or other in the dark." 'Again Stephen's wife and Olive's husband waited, with more and more anxiety. But no little yellow boat returned. Was it possible they could have landed further down the Esplanade? "It may have been done to escape paying," said the boat-owner.
The great drawback to his satisfaction in this feat was his fear of the displeasure the boat-owner might feel at his not having returned the same night, and the rough usage to which he had subjected the boat in hauling it over the rocky places.
A committee was appointed to examine and report upon the merits of the various plans submitted. While the subject was under discussion one boat-owner, Captain Binns, made an experiment upon his own account.
And mere man, the brown or black diver, receives for his daring and enterprise one oyster in every three that he brings from the ocean's depths and his earnings must be shared with boat-owner, sailors, attendants, and assistants almost without number. For size of "rake-off," there is no game of hazard in the world offering a parallel.
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