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Indeed they scarcely permitted an hour to pass without an inspection being ordered; but to their chagrin, instead of finding fish, they found the nets rolled up by the conflicting currents of the river and the tide into the form of two ropes. "This will never do," cried Stanley, as they brought the nets ashore. "We must set stake-nets immediately.
Nay, let me tell you, professionally, that the legality of the mode of fishing practised by your friend Joshua is greatly doubted by our best lawyers; and that, if the stake-nets be considered as actually an unlawful obstruction raised in the channel of the estuary, an assembly of persons who shall proceed, VIA FACTI, to pull dawn and destroy them, would not, in the eye of the law, be esteemed guilty of a riot.
Father Arnold looked at him with his soft and dreamy eyes, then said: "I think the crow's not hatched that will pick your bones, Hugh, though at the last there be crows, or worms, for all of us." "Why not, Father? Doubtless, this morning young John of Clavering thought as much, and now he is in the stake-nets, or food for fishes."
By this means many are caught; they have also stake-nets and lines with stones for leads; they also catch many with hook and line, and sometimes, now they have fire-arms, shoot them. Their mode of fishing for sturgeon is also peculiar.
Indeed, it was only last night that one at the river's mouth came and warned me and my wife of some new stake-nets which had got into the stream, I cannot tell how, since last winter, and showed us the way round them, in the most charmingly obliging way." "So there are babies in the sea?" cried Tom, and clapped his little hands. "Then I shall have some one to play with there? How delightful!"
'He is not; I do not think he will come thither again until the business of the stake-nets be hushed up, nor would I advise him to do so the Quakers, with all their demureness, can bear malice as long as other folk; and though I have not the prudence of Mr.
That I held him in contempt, and was displeased at the greedy devices with which he ruined a manly sport, is true enough; but, unless as it favoured my designs on you, he might have, for me, maintained his stake-nets till Solway should cease to ebb and flow. 'Alas! I said, 'it doubles my regret to have been the unwilling cause of misfortune to an honest and friendly man.
This was a significant expression of the danger to telling court secrets. I suspected that there must be a considerable quantity of game in this district, as stake-nets and other traps were found in all the huts, as well as numbers of small antelope hoofs spitted on pipe-sticks an ornament which is counted the special badge of the sportsman in this part of Africa.
Jake answered, and Jim was conscious of a relief that shook him when the others came up. Carrie was splashed by mud and breathless with haste. "What are you doing on the sands?" he asked. "Car broke down; we tried to get across," Jake replied. "Saw the Langrigg hill when we started and then the fog came on. They told us to head for some stake-nets, but we couldn't find them.
'Since the raid on the stake-nets, said Benjie, with his finger in his mouth. 'And what made you follow us? 'I dauredna stay at hame for the constables, replied the boy. 'And what have you been doing all this time? 'Doing, sir?
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