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"We are aiming at a big target," returned the inventor. "You've got to bait with something bigger than sprats to catch a whale, Ned." "Humph! Suppose you don't catch the whale after all?" "Don't lose hope," returned Tom, calmly. "I am going after this whale right, believe me! This is one of the biggest contracts if not the very biggest we ever tackled."
The largest adult sprat measures only six inches, while full-grown herring may attain as much as fifteen. Moreover, herring have teeth on the palate, always wanting in sprats, by which means the species may be readily distinguished at all ages. When in doubt, therefore, do not play trumps, but examine the palate.
The fish last mentioned are about the size of sprats, and are prepared for sale in different ways; the most common is by pounding them entire as they come from the stream, in a wooden mortar, and exposing them to dry in the sun, in large lumps like sugar loaves.
My Lord and Lady sat down to a repast of two pieces of salted fish, and half a dozen of red herrings, with four fresh ones, or a dish of sprats and a quart of beer and the same measure of wine ... At other seasons, half a chine of mutton or of boiled beef, graced the board.
"No, I'm afraid I haven't. I stopped to look at the sunset on my way back, and I didn't think of the time." Doctor South did not reply, and the servant brought in some grilled sprats. Philip ate them with an excellent appetite. Suddenly Doctor South shot a question at him. "Why did you look at the sunset?" Philip answered with his mouth full. "Because I was happy."
Then at last the skua rose again, and swept hurriedly out to sea to meet a small black-and-white speck that was coming in. It was a little, rotund, parrot-beaked puffin, loaded with fish sprats four of them set crossways in his wonderful bill.
Nan had his patience and his faithfulness; and Johnny, who crawled about the room, and could light a fire and do some odds and ends of house-keeping, was like her, and saved her much time as he grew older, but hardly any bigger. He had even learned to fry sprats, and to sing, in a high, cracked, little voice, a song known throughout the alley:
When this had been done he turned to the village maiden. 'Get up behind me on the donkey, he said, 'and put your arms round my waist. The maiden obeyed, the donkey standing quite still, and not so much as moving the end of its tail. 'Now let Assimund, Prince of Sprats, approach, said the King.
A great day for London loafers is it, when my Lord Mayor puts on the big chain, and issues his mandate to the sprats, who then come up the river, to the great joy of the poor, who have it thus in tradition. Well, Smooth thought he would keep Lord Mayor's day, and to that end harnessed up his team of donkeys, merely by way of contrasting it with some duke's turn-out.
It was Janice who urged Hopewell Drugg to refurbish his store painting it inside and out, rebuilding the porch, and erecting a long hitch-rail to attract farmers' trade. "Of course you cannot afford it, Mr. Drugg," said the girl. "That is, it seems as though every dollar you spend is putting Lottie back. But 'nothing ventured, nothing gained. You must throw out sprats to catch herring.
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