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With this instrument the Americans went to work with characteristic energy, and, by always using a line of the same size and make, and a sinker of the same shape and weight, they at last ascertained the law of descent.
He stood for a moment at the door, his fish-line in his hand, swinging the heavy sinker back and forth. He looked at Trina as she cleared away the breakfast things. "So long," said he, nodding his huge square-cut head. This amiability in the matter of leave taking was unusual.
When this weight touches bottom the drum ceases to revolve, due to the automatic brake, and the depth can be read off on the scale to one side of the apparatus. A cleverly devised little attachment to the sinker brings up in its grasp a specimen of sea bottom, so that one can ascertain if it be sand or rock, and whether or not it is suitable for cable laying.
Mamonglo ordered the family under a white blanket, and then touched the head of each person with a lead sinker, while his companion spirit waved a bundle of rice and a firebrand over them, "To take away the sickness which they had sent." Six other spirits came long enough to drink, then Bisangolan occupied the attention of all for a time.
It was tied to a length of string from which dangled a lead sinker. The bird was dead, but apparently freshly so. He knew that it was the chicken blood that had brought the sharks and a giant barracuda! The great fish, a full six feet in length, slashed past the sharks and tore a chunk out of the bird. The leopard shark made a fast pass at the barracuda, then turned and snapped at a black tip.
"An' if he's a frien' of Crawford's, why ain't he up to the house instead of down here? Huh?" Lonesome Pete shrugged his shoulders and settled back into his chair. "Slip me a sinker, Rawhide," he said, quietly, to the man next to him as though he had lost all interest in the conversation.
"Trade you my pinto for a steer," offered still another. "Nothin" doin'! That hoss of yours has got colic bad." "Swap this here goat for that rooster of yours," said "Sinker," a youth whose early education in art had been neglected. "Goat? You box-head! That's a calf. Kind 'a' mired down, but it's sure a calf. And this ain't no rooster. This here's a eagle settin' on his eggs. You need specs."
With zealous care they spear some more clam on the hook, twisting it over and over the barb so as to be firmly impaled. Then, with careful precision, they fling the line with its heavy pyramid sinker far out beyond the line of breakers. There they stand. What do they think about, one wonders? But what does any one think about when fishing?
So Dannie scooped the remaining dirt from his pockets, and found three grubs. He placed them on his hook, lightened his sinker, and prepared to skitter once more. Jimmy dropped his minnow beside the Kingfisher stump, and let it sink. Dannie hit the water at the base of the stump, where it had not been disturbed for a long time, a sharp "Spat," with his worms.
It mattered not that the sordidly battered lump proved to be an ingot of crude copper probably portion of the ballast from some ancient wrecks and that Truth was sulking down some very remote well when the fable of the golden sinker was invented. Ordinary men men of the type whom Kinglake designated "Poor Mr.
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