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"It seems to me," said I, "that fishermen always have sharper knives than other people." "Yes, we do like a sharp knife in our trade; and then we are mostly strong-handed." He was throwing the porgies' heads and backbones all that was left of them after slivering in a heap, and now several cats walked in as if they felt at home, and began a hearty lunch.
Under the action of the brilliant rays of the sun it becomes disintegrated, and falls away in crystals that are of various sizes and as long as the ice is thick. This crystallisation begins early, and makes the ice very dangerous and uncertain. The Indians call this slivering of the ice, candling. Sam had a narrow escape from drowning on account of this rapid transformation of the ice.
"Yes," said the man, "an' I'm going to sliver them for the trawls." We knew what the trawls were, and supposed that the porgies were to be used for bait; and we soon found out what "slivering" meant, by seeing him take them by the head and cut a slice from first one side and then the other in such a way that the pieces looked not unlike smaller fish.
"Will your ladyship," says he, slivering off the wing of a pully ally bashymall, "allow me to help you?" "I thank you! no; but I will trouble Monsieur de l'Orge." And towards that gnlmn she turned, with a most tender and fasnating smile. "Your ladyship has taken a very sudden admiration for Mr. de l'Orge's carving. You used to like mine once."
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