Stole My Pay? I FED the Village.

A year's work at sea, and at the settling up his uncle handed him a sum that came nowhere near what the household already owed, then put him out. The debts stayed where they were. What he had was a boat in bad condition and a notebook his grandfather had kept, with the old man's marks for water the village boats would not go into. He went out into it on his own. Storms came through and he stayed out there, and he worked each of them out from what was in the notebook and what was in front of him, and he came back with what he had found. After that he stopped fishing on his own account. He put the village boats together into a cooperative, and the households that had been carrying debts cleared them.