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Everywhere the sea, but not everywhere fish. During the five days that they had been on the grounds, a hundred land miles north of Scotland, the _Bon-Pêcheur_ had spread her nets in vain. She had cast them to right and left, she had followed up boats which were on the grounds before her, but in whatever place, at whatever depth they were stretched, they had caught nothing but the worthless white-nose herring, who travel in small companies.
It was the black noses that they were after. They are the true travellers. There are millions in a single school.