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One haul of the seine at the Baie Rouge brought in eighty-four thousand cod-fish in one day. It was the golden age of the fishery. Now the fish have deserted the eastern coast of Newfoundland. Our fishermen have to take their boats and anchor on the big bank, and there they stay for months, tossed about by every tempest.
"That I did: I knew him when he was an ensign in the 10th Foot; and, to say the truth, he is not much changed since that time, the same lively look of a sick cod-fish about his gray eyes; the same disorderly wave of his yellow hair; the same whining voice, and that confounded apothecary's laugh." "Come, come, Doctor, Sparks is a good fellow at heart; I won't have him abused.
An American writer has remarked, that its equivalent would have been the concession of a power to promote the fisheries, by allowing to fishermen a limited number of the cod-fish and herrings which they take on a Newfoundland fog-bank. Here then, you will say, is a fundamental obstruction to literary justice in America!
Wardle's favourite page, better known to the readers of this unvarnished history, by the distinguishing appellation of the fat boy. 'Aha! said Mr. Pickwick. 'Aha! said the fat boy. As he said it, he glanced from the cod-fish to the oyster-barrels, and chuckled joyously. He was fatter than ever. 'Well, you look rosy enough, my young friend, said Mr. Pickwick.
And when I get that, I come and eat another duck, and have oysters with my cod-fish, which to-day we could not have, except in the form of mussels, ma'am." "Naw, not a moosel they was aw gude flithers." "Well, ma'am, they may have been unknown animals; but good they were, and as fresh as the day. Now, you will remember that my desire is to do good.
In the spring of 1613 he set sail in a stout vessel of 130 tons, carrying 14 guns and 60 men, for a cruise to the coast of Maine for a supply of cod-fish, and whilst becalmed off Monts-Desérts, some Indians came on board and informed him of the presence of the French in the vicinity of that island.
As Richard came in, he opened and shut his mouth like a cod-fish, and his eyes protruded. 'Have you seen that, sir? he cried, nodding towards the paper. 'Yes, sir, said Richard. 'Oh, you've read it, have you? 'Yes, I have read it, replied Richard, looking at his foot. 'Well, demanded the old gentleman, 'and what have you to say to it, sir? 'You seem to have been misinformed, said Dick.
The footman handled the butt-end of his horsewhip with great dexterity about the head of Crabshaw, who declared afterwards, that it sung and simmered like a kettle of cod-fish; but the squire, who understood the nature of long lashes, as having been a carter from his infancy, found means to twine his thong about the neck of his antagonist, and pull him off his horse half strangled, at the very instant his master was thrown by Sir Launcelot Greaves.
When Peace, the eldest, was mad, she frequently kicked the churn out of the kitchen door, cream and all, and that lost her a husband. Love, the second, married, and according to local tradition once kicked her husband all the way up Foolscap Hill with a dried cod-fish. Charity, the third, married too, for the Stovers of Scarboro were handsome girls, but she got a fit mate in her spouse.
So great and so long has been the misgovernment of that country, that we verily believe the empire would be much stronger if everything was open sea between England and the Atlantic, and if SKATES AND COD-FISH swam over the fair land of Ulster.
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