LONGSHORE MEMORIES 
'jumpers/ the birds whirred back again whence they 
came. A ' sou'-wester ' covered the looker's head, 
one like that of a coalheaver, but smaller ; fisher- 
men's boots reached up to the thigh, and a good 
guernsey down over the boot tops when these were 
drawn up. 
Very anxious times those were for our graziers 
when high tides might be expected, especially in the 
night-time. The banks and sluices had all to be care- 
fully inspected by the ' lookers,' each farmer having to 
keep in good condition the banks that protected his 
own grazing grounds. Where cattle can feed, hares 
will be found, rabbits also, in the drier parts of 
marshes especially. Huge warrens are the links or 
dunes in some counties, having a lagoon or fleet on 
the marsh side, and the open sea, or a wide creek 
where the salt water runs up, on the other. Unless 
the hares and rabbits can be confined to such places, 
they are killed as quickly as they are met with, and 
necessarily so, for the banks, or walls where the sluices 
are, protect thousands of cattle and their owners. A 
rabbit-burrow or two in a bank would effect more 
harm than could be remedied for years afterwards. 
When the mushroom season was in, one man I 
knew well gave some of the ' lookers ' plenty of exer- 
cise. It was a curious sight to see three of these run, 
