Morning journal and courier., 1880-09-11
E The nIackereI.

The mackerel began their migration, he learned or at least the first were taken by the feet which went south after them, in deep water, about 60 miles below the capes of Delaware, early in March. They arrived on the Maine coast about the 1st of June,
 followed closely by the vessels which were presently strung all along from Cape Ann to Cape Sable Late in September they began to work to the southward, not shoaling on their return, and by the middle of November hardly one would be found to the northward of Boston Bay. This, at least, was the habit of our American mackerel which were look cd upon as distinct nation, with no afiha- tion with that which comeain over the Grand Banks, spawns on the Magdalen Islands, and remains in Canadian waters all winter. They seemed to come up along the coast, and strike inshore all about the same time, and the first notice of their arrival was often their appear
 ance in the weirs on the bays and inlets. An
 advance guard preceded the main body often
 by a week or ten days. A mysterious live
 seedS of which Middletown could only hear
 that it was red, excessively hot, like pepper,
 and hoated in the water, was thought to be
 the maekerel's s principal inducement to come
 into the bays. He was passionately, fond of
 it. and when it was ripe he was there, though it was most reckless dissipation, for It was
 said that it was so hot that 1t would burn It's way out of fish in a few hours, and 1t burn ed the hands of the fisherman in dressing such as had eaten it. A multitude of smaller marine creatures were fond of the red seed
 also The tiny pilot-fsh, perhaps kind of fugleman for the mackerel, but more likely his prey, like the rest, came first; then shoals of herring, shrimp, squid, menhaden. The round, 1mpid jelley- fish called the sun-squan, occurring sometimes almost numerously enough to stop the way of boat sought it. Woe to them all They can snatch but furtive joy; the fierce mackerel follows them up, devouring them as they fly. The only ,2ec of | limpid sun-squall are the few red seeds, which it seems not even to have the pleasure 1 of digesting The mackerel ruthlessly tears him in pieces for them, and the sea Is strewn with the remains of unhappy sun-squalls- | fDid the picture stop here, how little deserv- ! ing would the mackerel be of sympathy !" l unused Middletown. "And indeed, after all this, he is not one to call forth too much sym | pathy in any event; but the Nemesis that | pursues him is terrible. The procession con- | sists of the mackerel, his prey, and his ene- mics. Now here he is as one might say, 8 1 wild young prodigal, in his laced coat, oi green and silver, pursuing every mad whIIn ! and selfish pleasure and blinded by his folly I to the yawning pitfalls and omens of danger all about him. Or he may be looked upon as Belshazzar sort of person, drunk with in
 solent pride, while at the very moment the 1 Mede and the Persian are battering at the ! eate Me7ae, meme, tekeE, ulDlGrsin1! Thou
 art found a palatable article by many tastes and thou shalt be weighed in the balance The sinister shark is on thy track; the DOT
 poise lunges from the right; dog-fsh, blue
 fish, black-fsh from the left the mackere
 gull swoops down from overhead; the sol
 emn whale cruises in thy wake, ready to dive
 below shoal and blow it into the air, ant though prevented by an unfortunate arrange
 ment of the jaws from taking in the splendit
 gulps that might be imagined, does it yer.
 liberal justice; and lastly comes the grea
 schooner of memorable man, the mer
 chant, to whom all the other enemies are a
 nothing, and snares thee in lots of 500 bar rels in day" A quaint apparent exception ! and the only one, to the universal rule. of ra
 pine in the great procession was little birc | somewhat larger than sandpiper-the sea goose, so called. It sits over 8 mackere 1 shoal, and accompanies it in it's course | whether out of an amicable sentiment of com I panionship, or as rival for the mysteriou
 peppery seed, is not quite certain.
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