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The red and white mast lights had been left on all morning; the picking light and the jacklight at the end of the net both shone dully in the early sun.

Why, of course we can follow his trail slowly by the aid of that hunting jacklight of yours.

Now and then one would stand and stare, his eye-balls gleaming like coals of fire; and at last came the roar of the gun, and the jacklight tumbled to the ground.

In this fog he’d no doubt miss the man’s jacklight and twist his net up in the Islander’s prop, a long diversion from the night’s fishing.