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wall of network the fore-part's placed athwart the stream, corks keepin' the top 

 afloat, lead sinkers keepin' all smart below. What about the wherries cuttin' it ? 

 Wai, it's like this, there's two or three lines fastened to the top line; these run 

 through blocks fixed to stakes in the river bottom. It ain't a warm job always, to 

 keep watch at night, you think; but ain't your eel-bloke as tough as most folk ? 

 and ain't his kettle of hot tea allers on the hob ? If a wherryman looms up, he 





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sings out to the t'other, who slacks the rope, pulls the lines, and down goes the 

 top line, and there you are. Wherrymen know where they're set as well as the 

 eel-blokes do, and t'ain't often as damage is done. 



' Three or four openin's in this wall of net have long eighteen or twenty feet 

 purse-nets attached, which, as you saw, are kept open by means of hoops, fastened 

 to 'em. These ' pods,' as they term 'em, are laid and staked down-stream, their 

 positions bein' marked by floats. Funnel-shaped fixin's inside, of course, make it 



