FISHERMEN IN WAR TIME 



home, and likely to be. Winter is coming on again ; 

 it takes me an hour to walk to my work and an hour 

 to walk back, and as the result of my sufferings as 

 a prisoner of war in Germany I have bad rheuma- 

 tism. However, I am still here — which is more 

 than I can say for my poor friend who went out with 

 me for a bit of pleasure and was soon blown up by 

 a mine. And there are still six of the Lobelia's 

 crew prisoners in Germany, only four of us naving 

 been exchanged and allowed to come home. 



" When I went away to fish I had everything. 



" I came home a wreck. 



" And that is what the war has done for me." 



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