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occupation just about as intelligent as others of the working 
class with whom he has been brought into contact, and with 
far more natural shrewdness, and no men are more ready 
in a time of peril to do all they know to save a life. 
Now that the means of education have reached even the 
remotest fishing villages, we shall soon find the rising 
generations of fishermen upsides with their more learned 
brethren of those inland towns which have provided literary 
institutes and free libraries for behoof of the artisans 
and labourers who inhabit them, and many of whom a 
few years ago were as ignorant as our fishermen are 
accused of being to-day. 
With improved harbour accommodation and more steam 
power to aid them in their business, and both of these 
“wants” we are pleased to know are in course of being 
eradually supplied, the fisher folk of all grades will find 
their condition ameliorated and their future looking brighter. 
We heartily wish them more of the sunshine of life and less 
of its storms: they have been at all times a gallant, al- 
though a peculiar people, and now that attention has been 
roused to their condition, we trust their earnings will be 
increased and their sanitary surroundings improved, and 
that the dangers attending their calling will be fewer in the 
future than they have been in the past: in that hope we 
close this imperfect record of “the round of fisher life and 
labour.” 
