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Updated: May 14, 2025
She had swung in harbour so long that everywhere above the water-line she was as staunch as a herring-net. Her standing rigging, being of wire, was merely rusted, but her running gear was something too appalling to think about. Fittings, even the barest necessaries, were painfully lacking, as the man had been living riotously on them for over a month and a half.
'Nothing, said his wife; but all the time she was pondering over some magic rhymes she had heard in her childhood from an old lame man, which were supposed to bring luck in fishing. 'What if I were to try? thought she. Now this was Saturday, and on Saturday evenings Matte never set the herring-net, for he did not fish on Sunday.
Towards evening, however, his wife said: 'Let us set the herring-net just this once. 'No, said her husband, 'it is a Saturday night. 'Last night was so stormy, and we caught so little, urged his wife; 'to-night the sea is like a mirror, and with the wind in this direction the herring are drawing towards land.
When the time came to set my little fish free in the rearing ponds, as a matter of principle I covered the ponds with herring-net, closely pegged down on the banks so that I could not even get my hand under the edge.
'What are you thinking of? asked Matte. 'Nothing, said his wife; but all the time she was pondering over some magic rhymes she had heard in her childhood from an old lame man, which were supposed to bring luck in fishing. 'What if I were to try? thought she. Now this was Saturday, and on Saturday evenings Matte never set the herring-net, for he did not fish on Sunday.
He was the sole owner of a herring-boat and a fishing-cobble; he was also the proprietor of the house in which he lived, and was reputed to be worth money nor was it any secret that he had obtained his property by other means than those of the haddock hand-line and the herring-net. Harry, at the period we take up his history, was between forty and fifty years of age.
"Really, Kate," faltered Philip, "I can't " "Give it to me, then," said Kate. She was tugging with her trembling hand at the arm of the apple-tree, and the white blossom was raining over her from the rowels of the thin boughs overhead, like silver fish falling from the herring-net. Taking the letter, she glanced over the close
What! when but one dab of paint would make a man of a ghost, and it Mackintosh of a herring-net to refuse it I am full. I can say no more. No more of my luckless jacket for a while; let me speak of my hammock, and the tribulations I endured therefrom.
One would think it had been a milliner's work-room from the first invention of needles and thread. "What are these?" Amelia asked. "They are the broken threads of all the conversations you have interrupted," was the reply; "and pretty dangerous work it is to dance here now, with threads getting round one's shoe-points. Dance a hornpipe in a herring-net, and you'll know what it is!"
However, the fishermen are too wise to take children with them, for any noise frightens the herrings, so the fishing is done in silence, under the quiet stars. If you saw a herring-net taken in, you might forget yourself so far as to scream with delight at the sight of the fish flashing like silver, and bright with blue and purple hues which no painter could copy.
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