National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-08-11
Chasing Blacklist.

The fishermen on the point discovered
"A school of blacktish-a very large school
of transporting and feeding in the
bay, and SO set out to capture them
They rowcd out round them in their
boats, and began to shout and strike the
water with their oars, and make all the
wild Kisses they could, and started the
fish up the bay when the whole school
darted off at full speed west for the big
water, till they struck the shoal- water
made by the point /; then they rushed
Oft east and struck the main land. b,
this time all the fishermen ON the point
and along the Eastman shore had got
wind of what was in the bay, and put in
for share. The packet Nelly Baker,
on her way to Boston, saw them too,
dropped anchor, and all hands pitched
into the fishing tracas, so that by this
time sixty or seventy persons, with all
the boats they can muster were in line. to
prevent Their gong south INTO the bay.
Now the fish headed for the south, as
tley could not get out east or west, and
made a rush for open water; and the
livliest time you ever dreamed of out
side battle with firearms came on.
Every man and boy shouted his loudest
and with lance, spear, AK, oar, or any
thing else, they smote the huge mon
stels on the heads, confused them,
TUNED back the first line, and tinged
the waters with blood. BY this time the
whole school was so harried or confused
that they did not know which way to go,
or care much, only to keep together
Now they rushed easterly, and for half
IA mile the water boiled with excitement |
and rage-the shore stopped them-they
were quiet for while-then another |
surge to the west, followed by all hands
cheering and beating the water, and it
being high tide, they drove the whole
tribe on the shore, where they lay to-
lay. When they struck the shore, the
'alves began to cry with long, pathetic
vail, like hurt baby, which would set
he old olts in "A rage, for they are very
ond al Il CONSTANT in affection for their
title OF ., never leaving them till they
ire dead. When the calves struck the
hore and set zap their cry, the huge old
Mothers and bulls would rush up to their
escue, and with hideous roars that
would shake the air like thunders,
'lunge on the shore over and under each
ther, till some of them would stand on
heir heads, and shake their hukes, as
determined to knock something to
leces, If they could only reach their
ursuers. In chasing them up, they ran
gainst the boats many times, but did l
OF sink them; and one smallish chap, ,
eelng what an easy time the men in the 5
oats were having, jumped plump into I
ne of the dories The men in it dis
overed that they had business some {
here else just then, and did not go c
ack to ascertain what business he Il Il !
l their boat, till he drifted ashore as [
ulet as lamb in the dory At length,
ley drove them all ashore, and there '
icy lay, seven hundred and twenty of c
lem, from three to twenty-five feet B
ing, and weighing from two hundred
Tour or five thousand poands. Like F
hales, they are black and shiny fellows, "
ld are covered with a layer of fat or G
Iubbcr, which is cut into slices and
ripped oil Ior its oil. =
The best of my story is that the lucky
'hermen sold their prizes to the oil F
EN- for Sl2 a piece and SO some nine c
ten thousand dollars will be distribu- o
d among the poor and worthy fisher !,
en-, who do great deal of hard work B
r small pay. Bat I'm glad they ho : ~
ch good fortune, for .! J do not p
INK much liquor, but spend their
oney to maintain good homes, full of q
mforts for their families. But next
ne they drive such a school ashore, Il
ay you and | he there to see.