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“ Long life to the Pope, and may our streets run with 
blood." 
The fish itself resembles a small silvery herring having 
large scales. The people who catch it are much the same 
as those who fish for mackerel, but the fishery has a 
separate capital invested in it, the boats and nets used 
being peculiar to it. 
It is captured in much the same way as the mackerel is. 
In the night in drift nets ; in the day time in seines. 
Originally pilchard seining and mackerel seining were 
conducted in much the same way, but the decline of 
mackerel seining has now-a-days caused them to differ. 
The lookout of a mackerel seine is mostly kept on board 
the boat itself, and the seine net is hauled bodily on board 
with the fish in it, but in pilchard seining the lookout is kept 
from some hill where the huer—or man stationed to watch 
for the shoals of fish—can be seen from the boat, standing- 
clear out against the sky. He thus gets a much wider out¬ 
look than can be had from the boat. He holds in each 
hand a bush, and when he sights a shoal of fish he informs 
the boat of its whereabouts by preconcerted signals made 
with these bushes. The seine boat moves in the direction 
indicated, and if it reaches the shoal in time it shoots its 
net. You must consider of this net when shot, as a round 
room in the water without a floor or ceiling, and if the shot 
is successful it contains the pilchards. At the next low 
water time a net, called a tuck net, and which I will liken to 
a perforated pocket handkerchief, is let down from large 
boats stationed at one side of the room of water, the tuck- 
net being inside the seine, and it is drawn up by means of 
ropes hauled in on board large boats stationed for the 
purpose at the other side so as to scoop up the fish in 
the seine. As the ropes come home the boats close in 
