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"I ain't goin' to perish myself for a pinch o' fish like this" pushing them with his heavy boot. "Generally it's some warmer than we are gittin' it now, 'way into January. I've got a good chance to go into Otis's shoe-shop; Bill Otis was tellin' me he didn't know but he should go out West to see his uncle's folks, he done well this last season, lobsterin', an' I can have his bench if I want it.
Here had ended their passion, and now must begin the accomplishment. When the revelation comes, and the spirit thus speaks through the flesh, it is peace with human beings.... They lay there awake but silent into the gray hours of dawn, and when the mist had spread upwards to the sky, shutting out the stars, they slept. At breakfast Joe Viney said: "I was lobsterin' this morning."
You've cruised around more'n I give you credit for. Um-hm. Any time you want to know about a lightship or or lobsterin' or anything, I'd be pleased to tell you. Good-day, sir. So long er Sweet William. See you later." The "Sweet William" was addressed to Primmie, of course. The bow-legged little man, rolling from side to side like the lightship of which he talked so much, walked out of the room.
"Doin' what?" says I. "Oh, lobsterin' mostly," says he. "But late years they've been runnin' so scurce that summers I've been usin' the Curlew as a party boat. Ain't much money in it, though." "How much, for instance?" says I. "Wall, this season I cleaned up about one hundred and twenty dollars from the Fourth to Labor Day," says he.
That summer I'd leased it to a friend of mine, name of Darius Baker, who used it while he was lobsterin'. The gale had driven us straight in from sea, 'way past Sandy P'int and on to the island. 'Twas like hittin' a nail head in a board fence, but we'd done it. Shows what Providence can do when it sets out. "I explained some of this to Williams as we waded through the sand to the shanty.
"But there was lots of good days when I didn't git any parties at all. You see, I look kind of old and shabby. So does the Curlew; and the spruce young fellers with the new boats gits the cream of the trade. But it don't take much to keep me." "I should say not," says I, "if you can winter on that!" "Oh, I can pick up a few dollars now and then lobsterin' and fishin'," says he.
I do' know but I may make up some lobster-pots myself, evenin's an' odd times, and take to lobsterin' another season. I know a few good places that Bill Otis ain't struck; and then the scarcer lobsters git to be, the more you git for 'em, so now a poor ketch's 'most better 'n a good one." "Le' me take the oars," said Joe Banks, without attempting a reply to such deep economical wisdom.
"No; I take stiddy to my knitting after January sets in," said the old seafarer. "'Tain't worth while, fish make off into deeper water an' you can't stand no such perishin' for the sake o' what you get. I leave out a few traps in sheltered coves an' do a little lobsterin' on fair days.
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