[Devon Boys by George Manville Fenn]@TWC D-Link bookDevon Boys CHAPTER TEN 4/10
You come and put yours in." Of course Bigley did not respond to the invitation, and the banging and rattling went on for a few minutes longer. "Why don't you chaps stand away from the light? I can't see," cried Bob.
"That's better: now I can tell.
Look out, boys, look out! Here he comes." "Catch him in the net, Bob," I shouted. "Yah! Don't talk stuff," was the answer.
"Look out! Is he coming your way ?" "No!" we both shouted, and then "Yes!" for there was a quick movement in the channel between the two pools, and the next instant a large eel was splashing and writhing in the water and sea-weed of the pool which we had baled. "Here he is, Bob!" we shouted; and, as we finished the struggle which resulted in our getting the eel into one of the nets, and then out on the open rocks, and in a position to make it cease its writhings, Bob Chowne backed out to look on and help us gloat over our capture, which proved to be a plump young conger of a yard long. "Well, that's something," said Bob.
"Now I'm going after the prawns. No, you go, Sep," he said.
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