Besides, it would be hard to leave one's own country and go to live among strangers.

Don't you think so ?" "How do you make a living here ?" asked Cabot, ignoring the last question.
"We have made it until now by canning lobsters; but it looks as though even that business was to be stopped from this on." "Why?
Is it wrong to can lobsters ?" "On the French shore, it seems to be one of the greatest crimes a person can commit, worse even than smuggling, and the chief duty of British warships on this station is to break it up." "Well, that beats all!" exclaimed Cabot.

"Why is canning lobsters considered so wicked ?" "I don't know that I can explain it very clearly," replied the young skipper of the "Sea Bee," "but, so far as I can make out, it is this way: You see, the west coast of Newfoundland is one of the best places in the world for lobsters.

So when the settlers there found they were not allowed to make a living by fishing, they turned their attention to catching and canning them.

They thought, of course, that in this they would not be molested, since the French right was only to take and dry fish, which, in this country, means only codfish.