"Daylight fishing ain't much good just now; we take twice as many at night." "No trouble with the Frenchies ?" "Lord bless you I ain't seen a French sail for months.

Our cruisers are too sharp for them; though they say a good many privateers run in and out of their ports in spite of all we can do, and a lot of our ships get snapped up.

But we don't trouble about them.

Why, bless your heart, if one of them was to run across us they would only just take our fish, and as likely as not pay us for them with a cask or two of spirits.

Fish is a treat to them Frenchies; for their fishing boats have to keep so close over to their own shores that they can't take much.