Crossword-Solution: CRANS 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Last year, for instance, I had to prepare for about twenty boats fishing, and, I think I did not get thirty crans of herrings altogether.

How do these mistakes arise?-Because the fishermen may have delivered so many crans of herrings at a different place, where they could not get them entered, and there are so many fishermen of the same name, that one is often confounded with another, unless they are known to the parties, or have 'T' names attached to them, which are a sort of nickname.

Celui-là avait hérité cinq mille francs d'une tante; la fille, qui avait le sens de la vie, avait exigé l'abandon des carrières libérales, en telle sorte que son époux n'avait descendu que de quelques crans.

John Brown, sends me, from Jamieson's _Dictionary_, the following satisfactory end to one of my difficulties:--"Coup the crans." The language is borrowed from the "cran," or trivet on which small pots are placed in cookery, which is sometimes turned with its feet uppermost by an awkward assistant.

Bailie came along not long after that, and shook hands with Rob, and congratulated him; for it turned out that while not another Erisaig boat had that night got more than from two to three crans, the _Mary of Argyle_ had turned ten crans--as good herring as ever were got out of Loch Scrone.