I should fancy the fish has suffered in the same way as the lard.

You had better keep the door of the fish-house locked in future.

I wonder where we can get some more fish?
People's stocks of dried fish will be getting low now, I expect," Katherine said, wrinkling her brows and trying to think of a likely place where the want could be supplied.
"I know where we could get fresh fish, pretty nearly any amount of it, if you didn't mind the bother of catching it.

We could freeze it and keep it so.

But what about the lard?
You meant it to be sold, didn't you ?" "Yes, of course; but how much did you sell ?" asked Katherine, with a hope that he really had sold it all and merely forgotten to mention it.
"Sixteen pounds, all told.