Green patches between the cottages and the sea, once the playground of pigs and children, or the marine parade of solemn lines of geese, were spread with brown nets.

On May mornings, if the take was good, long lines of carts rattled down the road carrying the fish to the railway at Clifden, and the place bore for a while the appearance of vitality.

A vagrant Englishman discovered that lobsters could be had almost for the asking in Carrowkeel.

The commercial instincts of his race were aroused in him.
He established a trade between the villagers and the fishmongers of Manchester.

The price of lobsters rose to the unprecedented figure of four shillings a dozen, and it was supposed that even so the promoter of the scheme secured a profit.
To AEneas Conneally, growing quietly old, the changes meant very little.
The coastguards, being bound by one of the articles of the British Constitution, came to church on Sunday mornings with exemplary regularity, and each man at fixed intervals brought a baby to be christened and a woman to be churched.