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generation. It can, however, be used with 

 deadly effect. Although both ourselves and 

 our nets were occasionally captured, the 

 watchers generally found this a difficult matter. 

 In approaching our fishing grounds we did 

 not mind going sinuously and snake - like 



through the wet meadows, and as I have said, 

 our nets were rarely kept at home. These 

 were secreted in stone heaps, and among bushes 

 in close proximity to where we intended to use 

 them. Were they kept at home the obtaining 

 of a search warrant by the police or local 



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