THE COD-FISHERY 



young fish, the meshes of the net are so wide as to allow 

 all but the most full-grown to pass harmlessly through 

 them. But woe betide the parent fish if they once get 

 their heads into the meshes ; by the time the cords touch 

 them where they are roundest and plumpest, they can go 

 no further, and the first backward movement drives the 

 thread well under both gills, and then all hope of freedom 

 is gone for ever. 



