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We were a little more than four miles out, and we had put out more than half a mile of lines. It is very interesting to see the different fish that come up on the hooks, worthless sculpin and dog-fish, and good rock-cod and haddock, and curious stray creatures which often even the fishermen do not know. We had capital good luck that morning, and Georgie and Andrew and I were all pleased.
Rainey saw fear come into his eyes. His companion did not stir a muscle except for the quick shift of his glance, but went on sitting at the table, the gold in one palm, the fingers of his other hand resting on the grains. "Jim Lund!" gasped the captain hoarsely. "That's me, you skulking sculpin? Thought I was bear meat by this, didn't you, blast yore rotten soul to hell! But I'm back, Bill Simms.
"Then it's high time you had a horse and knew how to drive him. Besides, if I go to Sculpin Point I shall want to come to the village once in a while. I sha'n't sail and I sha'n't walk. If I can't ride like a lady I don't go to the Point." The inevitable happened. Captain Bean promised to buy a horse next day.
A down grade in the Shell Road, where it dipped toward the shore, helped things along. Barnacles tightened the traces, the sprit-sail did its share, and in an amazingly short time the odd vehicle was spinning toward Sculpin Point at a ten-knot gait. Desperately Mrs. Bean gripped the gunwale and lustily she screamed: "Whoa, whoa! Stop him, Captain, stop him! He'll smash us all to pieces!"
Wish we could get a hundred more like him! Hullo! Who's next?" The newcomer had a huge reddish-brown head with bulging cheeks; his blotched body, adorned with wicked spines, tapered slimly off to an inconspicuous tail. "Horn-pout! Toad sculpin! Bah! Get out!" Jim slat the fish disgustedly off, and he sculled slowly downward. Two more bare hooks.
Cis-a-roe there raily insists. All I know about Sculpin is, one night I went down there, and we got to playin' cairds, and he acted green as a mess o' cowslops at fust, and then he cheated; and O, I can't, I can't tell the story. I wouldn't hurt Sculpin for the world. Carry me off, and stick me in jail, if you want to. I won't tell, so there!
She would join him in fishing from the rotting pier, but with no certainty which was a cunner and which was a sculpin, when she caught it, and with an equal horror of both the nasty, wriggling things.
Hold on! said my neighbor, a young fellow whose name seems to be John, and nothing else, for that is what they all call him, hold on! the Sculpin is go'n' to say somethin'.
Hold on! said my neighbor, a young fellow whose name seems to be John, and nothing else, for that is what they all call him, hold on! the Sculpin is go'n' to say somethin'.
Injuns jes' cut off the hair and call it sculpin', don't they, Mammy?" "Lor', chile," replied Mammy, "I dunno, honey; I allers hyeard dat Injuns wuz monstrous onstreperous, an' I wouldn't play no sich er game." But "Injuns, Injuns, Injuns!" persisted all the little folks, and Mammy had to yield. The big chair was put in the middle of the room, and the little girls got in.
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