. Outing. I TURNED MUCH MORE QUICKLY THAN I FANCIED POSSIBLE, THE MAN WHO KNEW BY BERTRAM ATKEY Illustrated by R. McNeil Crampton. SAT patiently upon arock, fishing—in conse-quence of the aged manon the fish quay havingsaid: Go out to thePoint an youll fin abig square rock therelike a table. If you sets there quietyoull kitch fish. You wants to baitwi prawn—unbiled. If you cant gitprawns, git a bit o squeed. You waswantin to kitch a big fish, I spose? Ifnot, theres plenty dabs in the out at the Point you might git apollack or a bass. He had expectorated, narrowly miss-ing a box of m
. Outing. I TURNED MUCH MORE QUICKLY THAN I FANCIED POSSIBLE, THE MAN WHO KNEW BY BERTRAM ATKEY Illustrated by R. McNeil Crampton. SAT patiently upon arock, fishing—in conse-quence of the aged manon the fish quay havingsaid: Go out to thePoint an youll fin abig square rock therelike a table. If you sets there quietyoull kitch fish. You wants to baitwi prawn—unbiled. If you cant gitprawns, git a bit o squeed. You waswantin to kitch a big fish, I spose? Ifnot, theres plenty dabs in the out at the Point you might git apollack or a bass. He had expectorated, narrowly miss-ing a box of moist whiting that hadjust come into the fish market for auc-tion, and left it at that.^ I discovered that rock, and sat pa-tiently thereupon. Behind me towereda cliff that was like an impregnablebarrier between me and the was a curious brownish glow in the west that seemed to reach this cliffand somberly illuminate its gloom. Itook my eyes from the big sea float, saton the butt of my ineffectual rod, andstared at the cliff. It looked harsh,somehow—harsh and savage and fu-nereal. Great blurs of black merged
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