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Captains Courageous

CHAPTER III
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He had taken the bait right into his stomach.
"Why, he's all covered with little crabs," cried Harvey, turning him over.
"By the great hook-block, they're lousy already," said Long Jack.
"Disko, ye kape your spare eyes under the keel." Splash went the anchor, and they all heaved over the lines, each man taking his own place at the bulwarks.
"Are they good to eat ?" Harvey panted, as he lugged in another crab-covered cod.
"Sure.

When they're lousy it's a sign they've all been herdin' together by the thousand, and when they take the bait that way they're hungry.
Never mind how the bait sets.

They'll bite on the bare hook." "Say, this is great!" Harvey cried, as the fish came in gasping and splashing--nearly all poke-hooked, as Dan had said.

"Why can't we always fish from the boat instead of from the dories ?" "Allus can, till we begin to dress daown.

Efter thet, the heads and offals 'u'd scare the fish to Fundy.


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