But, in hauling this in, great nicety must be observed, for, the slightest hitch or deflection will cause the beam to turn the wrong way; when, if the net `gets on her back,' as the fisher-folk say, all your catch is simply turned out into `the vasty deep,' and your toil results in a case of `Love's labour lost!'" "But, what do you do with the net and beam, when it's all ready ?" asked Bob.

"You haven't told us that, yet." "Why, drop it over the side as soon as you get out to the fishing- ground," replied the Captain laconically; "and now, I hope, you understand all about it ?" "Oh yes," responded his listeners with alacrity; all, that is, but Mrs Gilmour, who assented somewhat dubiously, as if she could not quite grasp the idea, requiring the whole thing to be explained to her over again, when she declared herself still "all in a fog!" Her brother, however, the barrister, comprehended it at once.
"I should think it was great fun," he observed; "so I would like to come with you." "Do," said the Captain, with much heartiness.

"You'll be amply repaid for the trouble.

It is intensely exciting waiting and watching for what the trawl will bring up.

It's just like dipping your hands in the `lucky bag,' Miss Nellie, at Christmas-time." "Do you ever find any very curious things, Captain ?" she inquired on being thus appealed to.