I hurried down on to the little fish-wharfa wooden structure facing the seahoping to find something more cheering in the view of the little bay, with its bold cliffs, and the busy scene where the cobles were drawn up on the shingle.

They were also to an astonishing extent mere spectators in the arduous work of hauling the cobles one by one on to the steep bank of shingle.

Their cobles, which vary in size and colour, are uniform in design and the brilliance of their paint.

On another occasion one of the fishermen, named Tom Brown, was preparing to go out, with the help of his two sons, in his own fishing coble to the aid of a ship in distress on the reef.

Mary Coble Allen (W); 14Jun74; R579084.

Mary Coble Allen (W); 14Jun74; R579084.

Taking his "net and coble," he fished the river for the special purpose, and all the spawned grilse of 4 lb. weight were marked by putting a peculiarly twisted piece of wire through the dorsal fin.

Faber had laid hands upon an old tub of a salmon-coble, and was the first out after the curate.

Ready to fall at every step, he blundered through the water, which now spread over the whole place, and followed by Dorothy in mute agony, was making for the shed behind which lay his boat, when one of the salmon fishers, who had brought his coble in at the gap, crossed them, and took them up.