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He camped on the Tarra, near the present Brewery Bridge, and his black men at night caught a number of blackfish, which were found to be most excellent. Next day the commissioner entered on his official duties, and began to put down irregularities. He rode to the Old Port, and halted his men in front of the company's store. All the inhabitants soon gathered around him.
"You got all the symptoms buzzin' around in your nest like a bumblebee." And Dolly smiled her slow, enigmatic smile. Whereupon MacRae abandoned his industry and went off to Blackfish Sound with Vincent in the Bluebird. The salmon run was long over, but the coastal waters still yielded a supply of edible fish. There were always a few spring salmon to be taken here and there.
Blackfish made no reply to this frank confession; but, brandishing a hickory switch, he applied it so briskly to Kenton's naked back and shoulders, as to bring the blood freely, and occasion acute pain. Thus, alternately scolded and beaten, Kenton was conducted to the village.
However, when the party at last arrived at the Indian town, even Daniel Boone was startled by the proposition which was made by one of the Shawnee chiefs. "What do you think, Peleg?" inquired Boone a few days after the return from Detroit. "Blackfish wishes to adopt me into his family." "What!" exclaimed Peleg in amazement. "Yes.
In addition, one can get perch, porpoise, eels, leatherjackets, summer flounder, turbot, mullet, trout, blackfish, herring, sole, garfish, etc. In short, fish is so abundant in Norfolk that sometimes the police find it necessary to throw back into the water those that are not bought.
We saw, during our visit, a quantity of dried salmon, rock cod, blue dolphins, mackerel, blackfish, skate, conger eels, elephantfish, mullets, soles, parrotfish, leather-jackets, gurnards, hake, flounders, paracutas, and innumerable other varieties.
"Well," Jim said, "we're hungry, Norah. I hope you and er this gentleman are." Jim was concealing his bewilderment like a hero. "Won't you sit down and sample Billy's blackfish? He caught 'em all we couldn't raise a bite between us barring Wally's boot!" "Did you catch a boot?" queried the Hermit of the blushing Wally. "Mine, I think I can't congratulate you on your luck!
FISH. Fresh salmon, striped bass, halibut, fresh mackerel, flounders, kingfish, blackfish, weakfish, butterfish, pompano, Spanish mackerel, porgies, sheeps-head, sturgeon, sea bass, bluefish, skate or rayfish, carp, black bass, crayfish, lobsters, eels, white bait, frogs' legs, soft crabs, clams. MEATS. Beef, veal, mutton, lamb, pork.
One of their chiefs, Blackfish, approached Kenton with a strong hickory switch in his hand, and addressing him said, "'You have been stealing our horses, have you? "'Yes, was the defiant reply. "'Did Colonel Boone, inquired the chief, 'tell you to steal our horses? "'No, said Kenton, 'I did it of my own accord.
A little farther up she came across black Billy a very cheerful aboriginal, seeing that he had managed to induce no less than nine blackfish to leave their watery bed. "Oh, I say!" said Norah, round-eyed and envious. "How do you manage it, Billy? We can't catch one." Billy grinned. He was a youth of few words. "Plenty bob-um float," he explained lucidly. "Easy 'nuff. You try."
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