noon before
But I guess the best way is to save what we can and stop fishing for a while . Sometimes they come square-edged , like a stone wall , just as they have this morning ; and in a few days they 'll have gone somewhere else . Hope it 'll be that way this time ! '' It was almost noon before the whole trawl was aboard . It had yielded barely two hundred pounds of hake . `` Tell you what ! '' exclaimed Jim as he looked at his compass and headed the _ Barracouta _ westward through the fog for home , `` we 'll put the trawl in the house for a few days , and fit up for swordfishing .