Neville recalls preserving the day's unsold fish in his boyhood

As a boy, before refrigeration, fish were caught in such quantity that any not sold by three in the afternoon had to be cleaned and salted to keep, or else used for bait or dung.
Date (happened)
between 1905 and 1915
unresolved
  1. between 1905 and 1915 stated · probable · preferred
    Source The Perfect Law of Liberty ¶34"when I was a little boy", told in The Perfect Law of Liberty (nid 1526)
Place
Persons
Told / reported
  1. 2 April 1971 stated
    Source The Perfect Law of LibertyThe Perfect Law of Liberty (nid 1526), telling 1526-5, told 1971-04-02
Sources

Source

  • The Perfect Law of Liberty ¶34 (Not so long ago, when I was a little boy, we caught fish . . an enormous quantity of fish, because we didn’t have these enormous fleets catching our fish.)