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a tolerable satisfaction. Go on board one of 

 these ; and while the trawl is down, spend a 

 pleasant hour or two in talking with the simple, 

 honest, sturdy fellows who work it, from whom 

 (if you are as fortunate as we have been for 

 many a year past) you may get many a moving 

 story of danger and sorrow, as well as many a 

 shrewd practical maxim, and often, too, a living 

 recognition of God, and the providence of God, 

 which will send you home, perhaps, a wiser and 

 more genial man. And when the trawl is hauled, 

 wait till the fish are counted out, and packed 

 away, and then kneel down and inspect (in a 

 pair of Mackintosh leggings, and your oldest 

 coat) the crawling heap of shells and zoophytes 

 which remains behind about the decks, and you 

 will find, if a landsman, enough to occupy you 

 for a week to come. Nay, even if it be too calm 

 for trawHng, condescend to go out in a coble, and 

 help to haul some honest fellow's deep-sea lines 

 and lobster-pots, and you will find more and 

 stranger things about them than even fish or 

 lobsters : though they, to him who has eyes to 

 see, are strange enough. 



We speak from experience ; for it was but the 

 other day that, in the north of Devon, we found 



