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Dimly he heard a voice near him shout: "This way!" in English and felt himself gathered up by men and borne swiftly away. Then consciousness left him. The village of Freekirk Head was a changed place. No longer of early mornings did the resounding pop! pop! of motor-dories ring back from the rocks and headland as the trawlers and hand-liners put to sea.
The fish had failed. Day after day since early spring the men had put to sea in their sloops and motor-dories, trawling and hand-lining from twenty miles out in the Atlantic to four and a half fathoms off Dutch Edge. The result was the same. The fish were poor and few. Even at Bulkhead Rip, where the sixty-pounders played among the racing tides, there was scarcely a bite.
"An' that ain't all. He had your motor-dory with him the one you caught us with out of Castalia." "How did he have that? I gave orders the motor-dories weren't to be used." "Wal, cookee an' the boy they was the only ones aboard tell it this way: Arry he struck a heavy school fust time he lets his dory rodin' go, an' most of his fish topped forty pound.
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