The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-08-13


Wnlcn sAssains LIE 3 performed with SO lii.
tle friction shal tWonld Be hard for the great.
esi uiilitarian q tie age 70 prove Thai tie
human body Is amaehipe heml, aid the
lawyer pad like Brutua lie paused fof re.
lpy
The minister looked very hard al lin, d
VINO should say, II you think I'm going Il
give II 'hls founder % reply Is our speech
YOU are very much mistaken.
Some discussion then arose between ia
elderly lady and The lawyer about tie quail.
sles q she different kinds Of iish on The table
Che elderly lady maintaining (very Justly q
thought that he founder was decidedly
the best fish theme the table, not xceptina
me dish Of eels served up 8 Il 1gancois,
when vas smoking before them.
FOUNDERS, Z said the lawyer, casting ]
significant and confidential glance down Tie
tables then laying down his knife and fork
aa before, founders may be very good hsh
for esrtain persona, but never ear any Thing
which j. contrary b tie Scriptures Tie
Presbyteplan, At this stage Of the conversa-
zion, raised his head from his plate, and the
elderly lady who was just helping herself to
the haif Of q very fine one. suspended ope-
rations.
"Fiounders, z said she, forbidden BY the
scfiptures1''
I" Most assuredly, madam"
'sPray, /" said she, where do You find any
such thing IN The Biblel
sLeVi1icus. chapter II, verses q. 10. II
and ~ retorted the lawyer, You NAV read
that founders are declared unclean flesh.
for whatsoever hath no Jias nor scales II he
'oaters, thai shall be an abomiaation unfo
you.'
Hath not founder scaes?'' asked the
elderly lady, pushing the dish from her.
'None whatever
Here the Presbyterian ordered his plate Is
be changed; the lawyer looked about him
With triumphant air, as though the jury had
returned verdict in his favor, and bending
the .orefnger Of his right hand to black
servant ordered him, in a very emphatic
manner, TO bring him piece Of ham.
"Diable! you no eat de fish, but YOU eat
one d--n hog, said little black Jewish
looking man, ''he no be one proscriiDcione
hey!-" said the little Jew sharply, at the
same time turning up his nose, s.by gar Won
look in de book, you find him carcase one
ID abOnainacionet-You no eat de fish.
hey?'
The lawyer was completely s:umped for
some moments, and the laugh was going
strongly against him, but he extricated him
self in truly legal manner, BY proving that
there was a wide difference between The
.'carcase'' Of the hog il. the sense fl which
it is used in the scriptures, and fine Weg,-
phalia ham.
For four days submitted to this mode az
life. On the fifth kicked aside nv Garnet
bag drew on pair Of duck trowsers and red
flannel shirt, and clapping on a tarpaulin hat.
lolned party of fishermen who were bound
Tor Horn Island about three leagues distant.
We were nine in number, and soon our little /
boat was dashing through the foam.
We left the wharf here at daylight and
1t nine sat down under broad spreading
IVeoak to breakfast, that is after we had
caught supply of fish. This Island IS abont
lalf to two miles wide and some Q miles
ong, covered with pine, liveoak, &c. There
ire some cattle grazers on the Island. bntl
title or no improvement is to be seen.
After breakfast we prepared to fish. some !
With nets for mullets, and Others with the
eine, while ] chose the hook and line. The
ed-fish is the finest fish in these waters a.
ccount, perhaps, of its size. large one !
weighing 80 to 40 pounds. | was prepared !
Or reddish with large hook, and line lorty
Get long, 50 sticking on mulIet for bait. Is
nd Wading along the beach until within q
bout three feet water, unwound nv line ]
nd taking it about FIVE feet from the boot =.
ung 7 around my head several times then S
t i out the full length, the bait being stilI q
I'VE and able to bear the hook up. 1 /
L was some thirty minutes lafter several 4
'ortlve attemPisl before I hooked On ]. ana b 3
0m his weight I felt sure he was Prize n
raWlng the line over my shoulder; like ia. g
'lling keel-boat il The Yazoo, made Is - n
ore, though not very rapidly with ~ II
elghs Of the fish attached. Sc
lle vas noble fellow weighing, should =
ppose, some IS pounds. The other is,e,.
e gave three cheers as ! landed him sly
me beach succeeded ii sakino
'noaga 6 Z smaller size, when gave
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