fish could not return to the lake. We had no hooks or fishing line but we had plenty of wire for snaring rabbits, so we made wire nooses, fixed them on the ends of long poles, and snared the fish. I also shot a few of them. Amongst other things, we dug out a den of foxes. There were three young ones which we took with us and raised. When we took them, I am sorry to say, we had planned a different future for them, in case of emergency.
But luckily, the emergency never arose.
Seagulls were plentiful and we ate many of them. They were better than the loons, but still
