So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count each fish that he caught as ten, and to assume ten to begin with. For example, if he did not catch any fish at all, then he said he had caught ten fish - you could never catch less than ten fish by his system; that was the foundation of it.
Il finit donc par se décider (et il s’est toujours tenu scrupuleusement a cette décision depuis) a compter pour dix chaque prise, et a poser dix pour commencer – Exemple : s’il rentrait bredouille, il disait avoir pris dix poissons. Avec son systeme on ne pouvait jamais en prendre moins de dix ; tout le principe était la.