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Updated: June 11, 2025
The other would-be gunners and fishermen were satisfied to slam shot after sandpeeps, or hook a stray sculpin or a hake. But t'wa'n't so with brother James Todd and sister Clarissa. "Ducks" it was in the advertising, and nothing BUT ducks they wanted. Clarissa, she commenced to hint middling p'inted concerning fraud.
On a thin finger he has a ring, cut with a match fizzling, the crest of the Lucifers. But if he should be at a Poictiers, he would run away. Then history would be sorry not only for his cowardice, but for the shame it brings upon old Adam's name. So, if Minim Sculpin is a bad young man, he not only shames himself, but he disgraces that illustrious line of ancestors, whose characters are known.
I'm afraid it'll give me a sweat to beat 'im arter all. Out with it, Tilly." "O, go long! go long!" said Troffater. "I hope you'll lick the rascal. He's guilty's a dog. But don't ax me, now, what I know! I wouldn't go afore Fabens for a fat turkey, I wouldn't. And then agin, why should I want to hurt Sculpin, or lay a straw in his way?
I ask, respectfully. "For founding the family," replies Minim gravely, and I have sometimes thought a little severely. "This," he says, pointing to a dame in hoops and diamond stomacher, "this is Lady Sheba Sculpin." "Ah! yes. Famous for what?" I inquire. "For being the wife of Sir Solomon."
"Lady Dorothea Sculpin, who married young Lord Pop and Cock, and died prematurely in Italy." Poor Lady Dorothea! whose great grandchild, in the tenth remove, died last week, an old man of eighty! Next the gentle lady hangs a fierce figure, flourishing a sword, with an anchor embroidered on his coat-collar, and thunder and lightning, sinking ships flames and tornadoes in the background.
Patched clothes, old, black coat does not look as if he fished for what he might catch, but as a pastime, yet quite poor and needy looking. Fishing all the afternoon, and takes nothing but a plaice or two, which get quite sun-dried. Sometimes he hauls up his line, with as much briskness as he can, and finds a sculpin on the hook.
"Fact is, I ain't never paid much attention to horses, bein' on the water so much. You're sure he'll mind his helm, Jed?" "Oh, he'll go where you p'int him." "Won't drag anchor, will he?" "Stand all day if you'll let him." "Well, Jed, I'm ready to sign articles, I guess." It was about noon that a stable-boy delivered Barnacles at Sculpin Point.
Splitting slate needs care, and a man who is not careful should never try to work in a slate quarry. The splitting begins by one man's dividing the block into pieces about two inches thick and somewhat larger than the slates are to be when finished. The way he does this is to cut a little notch in one end of the block with his "sculpin chisel" and make a groove from this across the block.
For the first hour she reiterated, between vast sobs, that Captain Bean was a soulless wretch, that she would never set foot on Sculpin Point, and that she would die there on the sofa rather than ride in such an outlandish rig. Many a time had Captain Bean weathered Hatteras in a southeaster, but never had he met such a storm of feminine fury as this.
But when his ancestor is his accessory, then your homage would flatter Jupiter. All that Minim Sculpin does by his own talent is the more radiantly set and ornamented by the family fame. The imagination is pleased when Lord John Russell is Premier of England and a whig, because the great Lord William Russell, his ancestor, died in England for liberty.
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