475. When do you arrange to go out to fish?-About the beginning of May. In some years it may be a month or a fortnight earlier, just as the weather is.
476. At that time do you make a bargain with Mr. Tulloch about the fishing, to fish for him, during the whole season?-Yes. We have so much confidence in him that we do not make any written agreement; it is all done by word of mouth.
477. To whom do the boats belong that you go out in?-The boat I go in is our own. It belongs to the crew.
478. How many of you are there?-Five men and a boy.
479. How long have you had your boat?-We have had our present boat for about seven or eight years. She was a second-hand boat, about five years old, when we got her.
480. You bought her yourselves?-Yes.
481. Is the price all paid up now?-Yes; it was paid a few years ago.
482. Then Mr. Tulloch makes his arrangement with you to go to fish about the 1st of May?-Yes.
483. What is the bargain? Is it that you are to fish for him during the whole season?-No; only till Lammas that is, the end of July; and after that we stick to the herring fishing.
484. But when you are at the ling fishing you give him all your fish?-Yes; the whole. Every time we come ashore we deliver them to his factor.