Summary: | wet v With regard to the latter occasion, before settling down to the summer fishery in good earnest, the men generally took a day to go out to 'wet their lines," and on that day happened also what was termed "Losing the bottle,"which accident fell to the lot of the man who happened to catch the last fish on the first wetting of the lines. This ceremony would always be considered to have ended auspiciously if the skipper himself lost the bottle, as no man could afford it better; PRINTED ITEM W.J. KIRWIN JAN 14 1965 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 2 Not used wet, wettin
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