She made over five hundred pounds last year, besides the share the Board took.

She was built at Baltimore, and the Board spent over two hundred pounds on her, nets and gear and all.

There's only one year more of instalments to pay off the price of her, and Thady has the rest of the men bought out.

There's nobody owns a stick or a net or a sail of her except himself, barring, of course, what's due to the Board.' Hyacinth was sufficiently acquainted with the system on which the Congested Districts Board provides the Connaught fishermen with boats and nets to understand Father Moran's rather involved statement of Durkan's financial position.

He did not yet grasp why all this information should have been conveyed to him in such a solemn and mysterious tone.
'You might have the _St.Bridget_,' said the priest, 'for one hundred and fifty pounds down.' He paused to let the full glory of the situation lay hold upon Hyacinth.
Perhaps he expected an outburst of delight and surprise, but none came.
'Mind you,' he said, 'there's others looking for her.