1.In the month of September，shoal.o herrings often found their way up the loch from the open sea.Then the fishermen used to get ready their boats and nets to catch some of the fish.
2.One evening the children saw a large fleet of herring boats sailing up the loch，so as to be ready to set their nets when night came on.
3.Herring fishing is always carried on at night.The nets do not float on the surface of the sea.Thus they hang like great curtains，as you see in the picture.
4.When it is dark the herrings do not see thenet.They push their heads into its meshes ，and cannot get them out again.In this way tens of thousands are often caught in a single night.
5.The children got leave to rise early next morning and sail out to meet the herring boats a s theypassed down the loch with their catch of fish.
The picture shows the children waiting till the old boatman came to help them.
6.He soon came down，and pushed out the boat till it floated.Then he jumped in himself.They had to sail out a good way，but they were in plenty of time to meet the herring boats.
7.One of the boats stopped，and the boys bought some of the fine fresh herrings.The fishermen filled a big basket for a few pence，and then the boys badethem goodbye and sailed away home to breakfast.
GRAMMAR EXERCISE
1.Write the verbs in sections 3to 6.
2.Give sentences with these verbs as predicate.