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"Yes, I went through a whole bunch of 'em once pretty good pie this, cook, though gen'rally those artificial apples that swings on strings ain't in it with the natural tree apples for pie once when we were laying somewhere to the east'ard of Sable Island, in a blow and a thick fog fresh halibuting and right in the way of the liners.
And with an able vessel, you say? With that new one of your gran'pa's would you come clear with her?" "Oh, she'd come clear built to go fresh halibuting next winter, that one." "Yes and seining this spring. But suppose now you were haddocking trawling eight or ten dories, and you just arrived on the grounds, picked out a good spot, and there you are you're all baited up and ready?" "Winter time?"
It was late in the season, and Maurice Blake was to stay ashore to get married, for one thing. He had made a great season of it and could afford to. So the Johnnie Duncan was fitted out for fresh halibuting and Clancy took her. I went with him.
In April they are found most commonly in 80 fathom depths; in May in 30 to 40 fathoms, in June the best halibuting is had in 25-fathom depths or even in shoaler water.
So we put out, and on the rocks of Cape Ann, near Eastern Point lighthouse, on the day we sailed on our first halibuting trip, were Maurice Blake and Alice Foster, my cousin Nell and Will Somers, to wave us good luck. Clancy hauled the vessel close in to get a better look and they waved us until I suppose they could see us no longer.
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