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whiting and rather less insipid. On some parts of 

 the Sussex coast, it is true, the trawlers fish over 

 the rough ground, but even so they catch few 

 pout. In Cornwall, on the other hand, some of 

 the hookers anchor their small boats over favourite 

 gulleys and catch these fish by the hundred, but 



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they fetch only a low price and are invariably 

 bought up by the " jowders," who retail them 

 among the farms and villages in the neighbour- 

 hood. I have caught pout in Cornwall weighing 

 a couple of pounds, and at Folkestone I lately 

 saw one brought ashore that must have weighed 

 more than three, but one of half-a-pound was a 

 monster in those days under Hastings Pier. 



