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The flakes that had been deserted, that morning, became tenanted again by an eager crowd, and on the sharply slanted roofs of the little fish-houses some boys secured precarious perches.

Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick

That odor of the fish-houses had always been bad enough before, but now it seemed to rise in her nostrils and sicken her.

Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick

If the fishing is good the men at work in the fish-houses ought to be out fishing, and the girls should be out upon the flakes.

Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick

So a few of them returned to their fish-houses, and women and children hastened back to the flakes, since the sun was shining and the cod must be dried even if the heavens fall.

Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick

We had passed swiftly by the crowded flakes which clung to the steep, rocky shore, inextricably mixed with battered-looking fish-houses.

Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick

We went down to the fish-houses and flakes that crop out like queer mushrooms on stilts all over the edges of the cove, and it was a shaky damsel who shuddered over the passing of a wobbly plank.

Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick

When we landed some men came out of the fish-houses, for the time of the midday meal was at hand.

Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick

By this time we could see the cove and its rocky edges, upon which the rickety fish-houses and flakes were insecurely perched on slender stilts.

Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick

All the fish-houses and the flakes were deserted, though it was a fine drying day.

Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick

I prefer the fish-houses, and if Miss Jelliffe were acquainted with some of those streets she would think as I do.

Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick