is sons landed to have a
look at the take:

"It is a shark, then?" said Mr Temple.

"Ay, sir, she be a blue shark, sure enough. Look at her teeth!
Mischievous brutes; they follow the drift-nets, and bite the herring and
pilchard out of 'em. I've known 'em swallow a conger when it's been
hooked, and I've seen small ones caught that way, but they generally
bite through the line and go off. Look, sir, there's teeth--sharp as
lancets."

As he spoke he thrust the end of the boat-hook between the shark's jaws,
and wrenched them open for the party to see.

"I say, though, Mr Pollard," said Dick.

"Cap'n Pollard, if you wouldn't mind, young gentleman," said the great
bluff Cornishman, smiling at Dick.

"Captain Pollard," said Dick, "do these sharks ever attack a man or a
boy when bathing?"

"Never heerd o' such a thing," said the captain; "but the mischief they
do to a fisherman's craft, sir, is something terrible--lines, nets,
fish--they destroy everything. Like to take the shark home with you,
sir?"

"No, thank you!" cried Mr Temple, shaking his head; "no sharks, thank
you!"

"You're welcome, if you like, sir," said the captain; "but if you don't
care for her, I'll send her to London to my salesman, and he'll show her
as a cur'osity."

"Eight feet long exactly," said Mr Temple, who had been measuring it.

"Be she, though?" said the captain, "well, it be eight foot o' mischief
well put out of the way, and that's a good day's work."

They stopped looking at the long thin shark for some minutes, Dick
thinking that it was not so very much unlike a dog-fish after all, and
then they turned back to the net, which was being rapidly emptied, the
mackerel that were left being quickly counted out into baskets and tied
down, those obtained now forming what Dick would have considered quite a
good take.

But there were plenty of other fish, though none were very small, the
size of the meshes being sufficiently large to allow of their escape.
There was one more large hake, and quite a little shoal of red bream,
_chad_, as Will called them. Several dog-fish were there too, and some
more squid. The fish, however, that most took the attention of the boys
now were about a score of red mullet, and half as many more of the grey,
very different fish, though, the one being as gorgeous in its scarlet
tints as the other was plain, silvery, and grey.

At last, after a most interesting examination of the different captures,
th