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It is not neighborly and is seldom seen, as it lives only in the thickest reeds or herbage of marshy places, where it can run over the softest mud, or even floating plants, by means of its long spreading toes, which keep it from slumping in. "To-morrow, when the tide begins to come in, we are going to fish for bluefish!" interrupted Nat joyfully.
"Everywhere." "I'll put it straight. Where shall we start in?" Again the beautiful Cad Metti pondered, and after an interval said: "Criminals as a rule are fond of race betting." "That's so." "We've picked up many a clue down at the race track." "We have." "Let's try a little chumming down there. Good races are on, and if ever our bluefish show up at the track they will do so this present week."
Some very large; the finest haul I ever saw. Sent many of them to our neighbors. The term "greenfish" is unknown among Virginia Tidewater fishermen. Here again we have a British name brought into Virginia by a colonist not long removed from that country. There "greenfish" is applied to the bluefish, of which there were and are at times plenty in the Rappahannock river.
"You are impossible, I fear," she said and put aside not without a secret pang her interest in Lawford Tapp, an interest which had been developing since she first met the young man. He allowed the subject to lapse and began telling her about the ledges on which the rock cod and tautog schooled; where bluefish might be caught on the line, and snappers in the channels going into the Haven.
"Take your pay in clams?" "Oh, hush! I hain't no time to gabble. Mebbe I'll git a job here, 'round this yer wreck. If you reelly want that there grapn'I, wot'll you gimme?" "Five dollars, gold, take it or leave it," said Dab, pulling out a coin from the money he had received for his bluefish.
This new watering-place is called Ocean City; and my friend, B. Jones Taylor, was treasurer of the company which was engaged in making the much-desired improvements. The shallow bays in the vicinity of Ocean City offer safe and pleasant sailing-grounds. The summer fishing consists chiefly of white perch, striped bass, sheep's-head, weak-fish, and drum. In the fall, bluefish are caught.
It is, however, a fact that the flesh of the swordfish, though somewhat oily, is a very acceptable article of food. Its texture is coarse; the thick, fleshy, muscular layers cause it to resemble that of the halibut in constituency. Its flavor is by many considered fine, and is not unlike that of the bluefish. Its color is gray.
"It's a lucky thing the beast didn't start some plank of the boat when it charged; but as far as I can see, the Flying Fish stood the shock all right." "It felt like an earthquake," murmured Hiram, whose face was white and eyes frightened. "Well, I suppose we'd better head for home," said Tubby at length. "Those bluefish will go fine for supper." "Spoken like a Tubby," laughed Merritt.
Against this new breakwater the surf roared and foamed in terrible rage, but it could not pass, it could no longer swoop down into the cavern as it had done before. "The Lord has given us a defense," said Gudwall with a thankful heart. And then his eye caught sight of a great bluefish swimming back into the deep sea. "It is the fish who have built us the wall," he cried.
She paused for a minute; then she went on gayly, "And the moral of that is, stop worrying and come home to dinner, for I am as hungry as a bluefish." "Mr. Barrett spent half the morning with us, Cicely," Hubert said, as she came to the table. "Where were you, to miss your chances?" "Gallivanting with another young man," she said. "But was he really and truly there? What did he talk about?"
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