Seeing as you are the boss, though, how'd you like to trade your pack for my cargo--lobsters for groceries?
Both of us might make a good thing out of it.

Eh?
I'll take all the risks, and neither of us needn't pay no duty." "Can't do it," replied Cabot promptly, "because, in the first place, I'm not in the smuggling business, and in the second our whole pack is engaged by parties in St.Johns." "As for the smuggling part," responded Captain Bland, "I wouldn't let that worry me a little bit.

Everybody smuggles on this coast, which is neither British, French, nor Newfoundland.

So a man wouldn't rightly know who to pay duties to, even if he wanted to pay 'em ever so bad, which most of us don't.

If you have engaged your goods to St.Johns, though, of course a bargain is a bargain.