He wanted to buy the nets specially constructed for fishing prawns, not unlike those used for catching butterflies in the country.

Their name on the French coast is _lanets_; they are netted bags on a circular wooden frame, at the end of a long pole.

Alphonsine, still smiling, was happy to lend them.

Then she helped the two ladies to make an impromptu change of toilet, so as not to spoil their dresses.

She offered them skirts, coarse worsted stockings and hemp shoes.