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Updated: May 26, 2025
"O, neber you fear, chil'en," he said; "ef you're only goin to get sick from lobsters, you'll live a long day. You may go in for clams, an lobsters, an oysters any time ob de yeah you like, ony dey mus be cooked up proper." "I'm gratified to hear that," said Bruce, gravely, "but at the same time puzzled. For Mrs.
"If we only knew just where to find this Lyman person," Jimmie went on, "we might swoop down an' get him an' give the lobsters a run for their money." "Perhaps," Ned suggested, "we'd better wait for this new navigator of the air to show us where he is." "I see him doing it!" cried Leroy. "You bet he will!" Jimmie cut in. "He'll hang around the point of danger!
One who has never seen the big catches of fish brought in by a mackerel fleet or visited a wholesale fish market can have little idea of the importance of that industry, nor of the immense amount of food that is taken from the waters of the United States every year. The word fish is made to include not only fish proper, but oysters, clams, scallops, lobsters, crabs, shrimps, and turtles.
"What makes the crabs red?" asked Violet the next morning as she saw the pile of cold, boiled creatures. "They were a sort of brown and green color when we caught them yesterday." "Yes," said her father, "crabs, lobsters and shrimps, when they are boiled, turn red. Just why this is I don't know. I suppose there is something in their shells that the hot water changes."
He was glad, however, when the turtle left us stranded high upon a coral bed. On moonlight nights when the tide was low C. especially enjoyed wading on the shoals and hunting for the langustas, or giant lobsters. This was exciting sport. We used barrel-hoops with nets, and when we saw a lobster shining in the shallow water we waded noiselessly close to swoop down upon him with a great splash.
I said champagne, sir, and plenty of it, sir! turkeys, and plenty of them! Burgundy partridges lobsters pineapple punch pickled salmon everything! Look sharp, Be off!" And now listen to our proud Jack, with the clink of his own gold in his own pocket. "What did you say?
In fact, one of the first and abiding impressions of Bordeaux is that it is a great place for things to eat oysters from Marennes, lobsters and langoustes, pears big as cantaloupes, pomegranates, mushrooms the little ones and the big cepes of Bordeaux yellow dates just up from Tunis.
If we were ordered there also, we might find an opportunity; but, you see, the captain won't have the chances of meeting her without being observed, which he has here, and a hundred to one the uncle claps half a dozen lobsters as sentries over her, if he sees the Ione come off the place."
I wondered what was going to become of the rest of them and some fresh lobsters which were also disclosed to view, but he laid the present gift on the doorstep without a word, and a few minutes later, when I looked back as we crossed the pasture, the fish were being carried into the house.
She foresaw the possibility of vividly picturesque descriptions of bare-limbed, sun-tanned muscular folk plunging among weedy rocks, or spattered with yellow spume, staggering shorewards under a load of captured lobsters. But Meldon was most unsympathetic. "Besides," he said, "the chief haunt of the lobsters is at the other side of the island, quite a long way off."
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