“No,” said the boy, laughing. “What is it?”
“Oh! we call a small kind of grapnel, or four-armed anchor, a creeper,” said Will.
“Oh!”
“Then when we’ve let down the line with one creeper we pay out the rest.”
“Pay out the rest?”
“A mussy me!” said Josh to himself.
“Well, run it out over the side of the boat we’re in, and row away till we’ve got all the line with the baited hooks in.”
“Yes,” said the boy eagerly; “and then you put down the other anchor. I see.”
“That’s her,” said Josh approvingly.
“Well,” said the boy excitedly, “and how do you know when you’ve got a bite?”