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but when the cattle came through there they dropped into 
a pit. Well, the pound-netting started in the New England 
states, exhausted some localities there, and then came West. 
say ‘that: theyicame’ to (mes ljowm (ai fishery.) shavers 
place where I haul a net. It was a nice bay, and every- 
body had a little net all around it, and caught fish, and did 
a, good (thing, sl, lived ..on, the; corner” ‘of one \-of (these 
points, and there was my fishery, the best fishery on the 
bay. A‘ man eomes “to. ‘me,jandi says,’ “Mr. Green; om 
many fish did you catch last year?” I tell him so and so, 
which brought me so many dollars good to windward. He 
asks, “Why don’t you set a pound-net over here?” I reply, 
“I haven't got the means; it will cost $1,000 or $1,500:7 
Well,’ she replies, ‘i. will furnish the net, ‘and 1 ~will come 
and set it and show you how to work it, and give you half 
what it takes.” “All right,’ I say. Then this fellow goes 
to the other side and says the same thing to the other man, 
and: so on, and uthey) all« sayy? * Allyimight .iwe. will “dotaes 
He comes with his nets, and shows me how to work them. 
letisiavbig thing.) JP get: all the ash, pwant. it amotiekted 
to death over it. Next “yearn, T)/demtiget quite ‘so’ mack 
but! still) it is’.a. pretty good’ thing.) The next) year) alens 
towards the end of the fishing, he comes along, and _ says, 
“This is a good thing. You ought to own this. It seems 
to) be a): pretty good) .thing.” yy Wellwthat ds the end\senue 
The fellow knows that we have caught all the family of 
fish that come into that bay, but I do not know it. He is 
smarter than we are. .It is the family of fish that live in 
that bay that we have caught there. Well, I say to him, 
“How much will you take for the net?” He says, “About 
half »what.it ucost:””, The dact.as, the thing (has cone ups but 
I want to get rid of giving him half the profit. Well, I 
