[Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling]@TWC D-Link bookCaptains Courageous CHAPTER IV 32/37
You will find it so when you look.
I know." This so tickled Long Jack that he overbore Tom Platt, and the two went out together. Underrunning a trawl means pulling it in on one side of the dory, picking off the fish, rebaiting the hooks, and passing them back to the sea again something like pinning and unpinning linen on a wash-line.
It is a lengthy business and rather dangerous, for the long, sagging line may twitch a boat under in a flash.
But when they heard, "And naow to thee, O Capting," booming out of the fog, the crew of the "We're Here" took heart.
The dory swirled alongside well loaded, Tom Platt yelling for Manuel to act as relief-boat. "The luck's cut square in two pieces," said Long Jack, forking in the fish, while Harvey stood open-mouthed at the skill with which the plunging dory was saved from destruction.
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