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grand eat when he get urn, but hard ketch 

 urn. Ketchum one ! " 



This appeal didn't quiet the desire to tackle 

 one of them, so, after watching for some time 

 longer, during which they approached nearer 

 the brig, the " grains " used for catching 

 dolphin and similar fish were procured and 

 attached to the deep-sea line, some 200 

 fathoms long, used for taking soundings, or 

 the depth of water when approaching the land 

 from the sea. The "grains," it should be 

 explained, consist of four pieces of half-inch 

 steel, 10 inches long, with beards on the 

 one sharpened end, and an inch and a half 

 long. These four pieces are welded together, 

 with a socket on the top, into which a staff 

 is fitted, the whole attached together when 

 in service by a snood worked on the socket 

 with strong twine, also another on the staff, 

 into both of which snoods, or eyes, the rope 

 is attached ; that on the staff being so arranged 

 than, when a fish is struck, the staff detaches 

 from the socket and is held secured by the 

 line through the eye. 



Well, with this gear and the brig's cutter 

 (boat) I started for the darkey's fish, taking 



