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Updated: June 19, 2025
He scattered about him fish-lines, hooks, lead for sinkers, oilcloth jackets, whales' teeth, and various other articles, and at length came back bearing a much-crumpled sheet of printed paper. This he spread out upon the dining table, first pushing aside the dishes to make room, and, after adjusting his spectacles, said triumphantly: "There! There she is! The Nup-ti-al Chime.
Alas! when he was raised to the mouth of the shaft we saw that he was one of the sinkers, and was unconscious apparently, indeed, dead. Whilst the doctor in attendance was seeking to restore him, other men were brought up, nearly all in the same condition, until the whole of the sinkers who had been engaged in their perilous task of mercy were laid in a row, pallid and unconscious, at our feet.
It was rude enough, to be sure, but perhaps it would do its work as well as if it had been twined out of silk. At all events, it was soon to have a trial for the moment it was finished the sinkers were attached to it, and it was carried down to the edge of the water.
If it don't come we'll run for Old Stairs Bay, an' if they're too sharp for us there we'll make for Pegwell Bay, and drop the tubs overboard with sinkers at 'em." For nearly quarter of an hour the party in the boat watched in silence.
"How do you account for the clerk that orders coffee and sinkers at Child's every day?" "That's exactly it," Nancy said. "He knows that he needs bulk and stimulation. He's handicapped by his poverty, but he gets the nearest substitute for the diet that suits him that he can get. If he could afford it he would have a square meal that would nourish him as well as warm and fill him."
Having disposed our big lines, we bait the smaller ones with "pippies," and not two minutes at the outside elapse after the sinkers have touched bottom when we know we are to have a good time, for each of us has hooked a fish, and three whiting are kicking on the sand before five minutes have expired.
The fisherman draws in the cord attached to the small end, causing the sinkers to drag along to the bottom until directly beneath him, when their weight closes the net. It requires much skill and practice to throw this net properly, but once the art is mastered, the fisherman is very successful. Blanket fishing similar to that in use by the neighboring Igorot is found here.
She warn't built for it, and if we go pressing her too hard she'll bust a stay which is the same, sir, as sending harf of us to the sick-bay!" "What I want to do," Tommy explained, "is load her up with sinkers and truck like that, and touch her off right! Just a blank won't tell those devils anything, but if we pepper 'em with a hat full of old junk they'll haul-to in a jiffy!"
'Put some stones along with the sinkers, Rob, the old man said in a whisper, as if he were afraid of the herring hearing; 'go deep, deep, deep. Well, they quietly let out the seemingly interminable drift-net as they pulled gently along, and when that was accomplished they took in the long oars again. Nicol lit up the little stove, and proceeded to boil the tea.
They also assist in laying down new buoys and sinkers, and removing old ones, etcetera. Lightships run considerable risk, for besides being exposed at all times to all the storms that rage on our shores, they are sometimes run into by ships in foggy weather. The Gull lightship, above referred to, occupies a peculiar and interesting position.
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