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.

Boat-fishin' ain't reckoned progressive, though, unless ye know as much as dad knows.

Guess we'll run aout aour trawl to-night.