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long-armed revenge; for boating seldom breeds 

 the men that fishing does. Here, however, fishing 

 Is still kept up — by some men right Into the 

 frighting season — until the toll of fishing by night 

 and boating by day compels them to leave off one 

 or the other; and, If they possess several pleasure 

 boats, It Is the fishing has to go. We are proud 

 of the fact that we have no boatmen on the beach; 

 only fishermen who do boating. We do not 

 tout for frights, or run after people along the 

 Front, badgering them to go to sea, as they do in 

 some towns that we could name. We wait to be 

 hired, like barristers and physicians. Frighting is 

 the fisherman's form of pot-boihng. 



It is, of course, a comparatively non-productive 

 kind of labour. Money changes hands just as It 

 does In fishing, but no wealth. In the shape of fish- 

 food from the sea. Is at the same time added to 

 the resources of the country. (Yet only a shallow 

 economy reckons as labour In vain the production 

 of pleasure and health.) And It cannot be pre- 

 tended that frighting is so independent and worthy 

 a job as fishing. There are more misunderstandings 

 over a week's frighting than over a whole season's 

 fishing. At its best, even with those who may be 

 called personal friends aboard, one has to a certain 



