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Four miles to the east of Cat Point we saw the humble homes of Peter Sheepshead and Sam Pompano, two fishermen, whose uniform success in catching their favorite species of fish had won for them their euphonious titles. We camped at night near the mouth of Crooked River, which enters the sound opposite Dog Island, having rowed twenty-four miles.
I should be on the block down at Sheepshead, but, to tell you the truth, the hot pace the backers set me at Brooklyn knocked me out a bit. I'm goin' to take a breather for a few days an' lay again' 'em next week. Yes, I'll go with you, Mr. Crane." In the morning the two journeyed to Brookfield. "I won't go to the bank with you," Crane said; "I wish you would go in alone.
A correspondent from Sheepshead Bay, a place celebrated for the size of its mosquitoes and the number of its amateur fishermen, recommends the following as a very good mixture for anointing the face and hands while fishing: Oil of tar. 1 ounce. Olive oil. 1 ounce. Oil of pennyroyal. 1/2 ounce. Spirit of camphor. 1/2 ounce. Glycerine. 1/2 ounce. Carbolic acid. 2 drachms. Mix.
Carter when we entered the Hall to dinner. As we were rowing up Nominy we saw fishermen in great numbers in canoes and almost constantly taking in fish, bass and perch. This is a fine sheepshead, Mr. Or would you prefer a bass or a perch? Or perhaps you will rather help yourself to some picked crab. It is all extremely fine, sir, I'll help myself. August.
On holidays my father used to take me on the most delightful fishing excursions to the then unpolluted waters of Coney Island Creek and Sheepshead Bay; and on Monday afternoons in midwinter it was a regular thing that I should go with him to New York to ramble among the old book-shops in Nassau Street and eat oysters at Dorlon's stall, with wooden tables and sawdust-sprinkled floor, in Fulton Market.
"I was sorry that my late journey into Connecticut prevented my seeing the poor man who was so suddenly taken away from the house of Widow White," observed the Rev. Mr. Whittle, some little time after he had made his original attack on the sheepshead. "They tell me it was a hopeless case from the first?" "So Dr. Sage considered it," answered the deacon.
She's in a couple of stakes at Gravesend and Sheepshead, and we'll just fit her into the softest spot." "What about Lauzanne?" asked the Trainer, "I'm afraid he's a bad horse." "How is he doing?" "He's stale. He's a bad doer doesn't clean up his oats, an' mopes." "I guess that killing finish with The Dutchman took the life out of him.
He had been born on the eastern shore of Maryland and was brought up on canvasbacks, soft-shell crabs and terrapin not to mention clams and sheepshead.
They have vanished. I called upon Dieckhoff in the two-story house in Sheepshead Bay where he lived. He had no intimate friends, didn't smoke, drink or run around. The life of the German war veteran seemed to be confined to working in the Navy Yard, returning home unobtrusively to work on ships' models and making his occasional visits to Nordenholz's garret.
We have some capital things of our own, too; such as canvass-backs, reedbirds, sheepshead, shad, and blackfish. The difference between New England and the Middle States is still quite observable, though in my younger days it was patent. I suppose the cause has been the more provincial origin, and the more provincial habits, of our neighbours. By George!
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