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Specimen caught by seine, August, 1841. This fish is delicate eating. No. 32. CARANX MICANS, Solander, Icon. Parkinson, Bib. Banks, No. 89. Native name, MADAWICK, "Skip-jack" of the settlers. "Rays, D. 8-28; A. 2-23; P. 15."
"Best qualities of beef four shillings and eightpence a stone mutton three shillings and eightpence, to four shillings and sixpence. He was exceedingly ill when I paid my last visit I gave him nearly a stone of Epsom-salts, and bled him twice. This horse would suit you to a T, sir, but my skip-jack is coming out on one at two o'clock that can carry a house. See what a bosom this one's got.
The cutlass-fish, Trichiurus lepturus, unfortunately known in eastern Florida and at Pensacola as the swordfish; at New Orleans, in the St. John's River, and at Brunswick, Georgia, it is known as the "silver eel"; on the coast of Texas as "saber-fish," while in the Indian River region it is called the "skip-jack."
"Good morning, daughter!" quoth Adam, coming in from his early inspection; "whither away with such skip-jack grace, habited in yellow and black like a wasp?" "I have done my work, father," Patsy would answer. "I promised to go help Jean at Glenanmays. The lads are all in the heather and the maids have to do the heavy work of the field."
'You have not washed your hands, added Felix. 'What's the good? said Fulbert. 'They'll be as jolly dirty again directly, said Lance. 'But you would be more decent company in the meantime, said Felix. At that moment there was a splash in his plate, a skip-jack made of the breast-bone of a chicken had alighted there with a leap.
When he sees a great flock of them fluttering over the water, he suspects that the objects of his pursuit are there, feeding from below on the squid, the shiners, or the skip-jack, on which the gulls are feeding from above. So the fisherman sails as fast as possible in that direction, wishing to drag his trolls through the school of fish while they are still hungry.
Shopping was a delight of brisk conferences. The very merchants whose droning she found the dullest at the two or three parties which were given to welcome her were the pleasantest confidants of all when they had something to talk about lemons or cotton voile or floor-oil. With that skip-jack Dave Dyer, the druggist, she conducted a long mock-quarrel.
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