Net Overboard 



backlash of a wave. At the end of ten minutes, the head of the 

 cod-end was stretched on the rail. Finch was then handed the 

 stout rope arranged as a becket which he looped about the net. 

 This, in turn, was attached to the warp of the gilson and the bag 

 lifted upwards and forwards and inwards to lurch murderously 

 with the swell against the two strong bag-ropes, laid between bul- 

 warks and rigging, that kept it from penduluming like an enor- 

 mous blunt instrument among the men who were waiting atten- 

 tively on the deck. 



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