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"What on earth are these for?" I exclaimed. 



" What be they for, sir ? Well, I reckon they 

 be to take conger and lobster with, and no mis- 

 take we shall find them in the holes. Some of 

 the holes are werry long and werry big ; some 

 are not larger than your arm. You see them 

 people standing in the water ? Well, they be 

 on a rock waiting for the tide to go down. 

 They knows all the favourite holes, they do, and 

 are just waiting for the tide to unkiver them." 



This was a fact ; there were a whole lot of 

 men, fifteen or twenty at least, on the watch, for 

 the holes to uncover. How they could manage 

 to find out these said holes in the vast masses 

 of rock miles upon miles I could not imagine, 

 but so it was, they knew every good hole, the 

 length, depth, and in fact everything connected 

 with it. It was great fun on getting near ta 

 hear these people going on at one another. 



" You be off," some woman would exclaim in 

 broken English and half in Jersey French. 



" Mauvaise bete what for you come to my 

 hole ? I ,was here de firse" 



" You be d d !" a great be-whiskered fellow 



would reply ; " what do you want here witk 



