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THE SALT OF MY LIFE 



And now we are all busy, letting the float travel 

 nearly as far as the opposite post, then bringing 

 it back to travel over the same ground again. 

 This usually means losing the paste, so that the 

 rebaiting is a considerable item in our activity, 



MULLET FISHING UNDER MARGATE JETTY 



and indeed on this first morning there is so much 

 rebaiting for the first hour or so that I begin to fear 

 that my customary luck has followed me to Mar- 

 gate, and that I am not even going to see any of 

 the coveted mullet caught by others. Suddenly, 

 however, the expert wrist on my right gives a 



