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Q. What is it a cord there? A. $3 for about seven feet; they call 

 that a cord down there. 



Q. During your experience in the bay, what was the highest price 

 you paid for a cord of wood ? A. $3 to my knowledge. 



Q. Did you ever fish very much within the limits in the bay, after the 

 repeal of the Reciprocity Treaty, in 1866 ? A. I have tried inshore, but I 

 never found that I could do anything there. I invariably did better off 

 shore. 



Q. Was this because you had to watch the cutters? A. No; I did 

 not have to watch them when we had reciprocity. 



Q. I am speaking of the time when this treaty was abrogated; from 

 1866 to 1868, did you tish a great deal inshore without licenses? A. 

 No, I did not. I did not tish inshore while I was in the Scotland at all. 

 I got the heft of my mackerel around the Magdalen Islands. 



Q. Do you mean to say that you never fished inshore at all ? A. I 

 have tried inshore, but I never got mackerel there of any account. 



Q. These three years followed the close of the American war? A. 

 Yes. 



Q. And then you were not obliged to be armed to the teeth as be- 

 fore? A. No. 



Q. Did any cutters ever seize or try to seize you ? A. In those 

 years? 



Q. Yes. A. No. 



Q. But previously ? A. Yes. 



Q. When ? A. In 1851. 



Q. Where were you seized in 1851? A. I was not seized. I never 

 was seized. 



Q. Was any attempt made to seize you? A. Yes. 



Q. Where were you then fishing? A. It was at the last of my trip 

 when I got those 214 barrels. 



Q. Where were you fishing? A. Wide off Margaree between that 

 and Cheticarap. 



Q. Which cutter attempted to seize you? A. A man named Cutler, 

 from Guysborough, was there in a little pinkey ; he was a spy, and he 

 used to make compromises when vessels got a good deck of mackerel 

 anywhere and were dressing them inshore. He would take 20 or 10 

 barrels, making as good a bargain as he could. This Cutler was in this 

 pinkey, and I was at anchor under Margaree Island at the time. 



Q. Were you lying close inshore? A. I was at anchor and not 

 fishing. 



Q. Lying close inshore? A. Yes, right close in under Margaree for 

 shelter. He did not attempt to take me ; if he had 1 would have given, 

 him a clout, but he took another vessel, the Harp, Captain Andrews. 

 I kept a watch all night, but they did not come alongside; if they had, 

 we would have given them grape-shot, I bet. 



Q. Had you grape-shot on board ? A. We had a gun loaded with 

 slugs, or something of that sort. 



Q. In fact, then, you were never boarded by a customs or seizing 

 officer? A. I was boarded by an officer who came for light-money, at 

 Little Causo, that same year. 



Q. Did you pay the light-money? A. No. 

 Q. W T hy? A. Because this man was not authorized to receive it. 



Q. W T hat did you do ? A. I hove him into his boat, of course, and 

 got rid of him. 



Q. You knew that the light-money was due ? A. Certainly ; and I 

 was willing to pay it, had the right man come for it. 



