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than cockle gathering, and the price per bag even in peace days 
was higher than was obtained for cockles. The expert peri- 
winkle collector can easily obtain half a bag per tide. Many 
of them collected three-fourths of a bag before the returning 
tide drove them home. The periwinkle fisherman was able 
to live very comfortably in pre-war times on the income from 
his periwinkles, fish, fishmg parties and market garden. He 
was probably better off on the whole than many of the workers 
in large factories where well defined hours are the custom, at 
any rate he was perfectly satisfied and had no desire to change 
his occupation till war restrictions compelled him. 
