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vii. The Pilchard Fishery.
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If it so happened that a stranger in Cornwall went out to take his first walk along the cliffs towards the south of the county, in the month of August, that stranger could not advance far in any direction without witnessing what would strike him as a very singular and alarming phenomenon.
He would see a man standing1 on the extreme edge of a precipice2, just over the sea, gesticulating in a very remarkable3 manner, with a bush in his hand; waving it to the right and the left, brandishing4 it over his head, sweeping5 it past his feet — in short, apparently6 acting7 the part of a maniac8 of the most dangerous character. It would add considerably9 to the startling effect of this sight on the stranger, if he were told, while beholding10 it, that the insane individual before him was paid for flourishing the bush at the rate of a guinea a week. And if he, thereupon, advanced a little to obtain a nearer view of the madman, and then observed on the sea below (as he certainly might) a well-manned boat, turning carefully to right and left exactly as the bush turned right and left, his mystification would probably be complete, and the right time would arrive to come to his rescue with a few charitable explanatory words. He would then learn that the man with the bush was an important agent in the Pilchard Fishery of Cornwall; that he had just discovered a shoal of pilchards swimming towards the land; and that the men in the boat were guided by his gesticulations alone, in securing the fish on which they and all their countrymen on the coast depend for a
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