Ye wun't, though.

Dress daown! Dress daown! Penn'll pitch while you two bait up." "Why in thunder didn't them blame boys tell us you'd struck on ?" said Uncle Salters, shuffling to his place at the table.

"This knife's gum-blunt, Dan." "Ef stickin' out cable don't wake ye, guess you'd better hire a boy o' your own," said Dan, muddling about in the dusk over the tubs full of trawl-line lashed to windward of the house.

"Oh, Harve, don't ye want to slip down an' git 's bait ?" "Bait ez we are," said Disko.

"I mistrust shag-fishin' will pay better, ez things go." That meant the boys would bait with selected offal of the cod as the fish were cleaned--an improvement on paddling bare-handed in the little bait-barrels below.