The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-08-16

Our George and the Coo Fish,
propose to drop you line (cod-line) about
this interesting fish The cod is sea fruit and
is named after Cape Cod, Massa-chews-t.
1t is a native of salt water and is never found
in fresh water of its own accord. Fresh water
does not agree with it; it always brings on
boils The cod is one of the most aristocratic
of fish. have looked into this subject till my
eyes ache, to why this is so, and have con-
cnded that it is because it goes Into SO many of
the first families. 1t is often found at the table
with them, and attends many pf their balls.
Hence the term cod fish arstoclacy. If am
wrong in this matter l am willing to pay as
much for the true solution of this problem as
any other person of my size.
One of the peculiarities of saltis that it will
keep things fresh, consequently the cod is
fresh fish. 1t wears suit of water proof
clothes, and | have known the God intimately
for years and | never yet knew of an instance
where one leaked, so as to let the water into its
meat.
There is a line fence runs through the cod
forward and aft, built of bones, and the meat is
fastened to these bones, and then the whole
thing is tied up in skin bag I'd prevent the
water from washing the meat off. A feeding
machine is affixed to the bow end and the stern
is finished off with tail, which serves as a
rudder to steer the fish when alive. and as 4
handle to carry it home by when dead.
When Nature passed round the mouths the
cod had about the first pick. Having no ears to
interfere it took fair-sized mouth without re-
gard to beauty. The cod does not dheW tobacco.
His mouth WAS not planned for it'll the corners
drop so that the juice would Away be running
down his cheeks and would keep his wife con
tnually telling him to ''wpe off bis chin" but
his mouth like good many others, has got
him into all his trouble.
The cod is Il brunette and has Il light blue
eye. The expression of its face is stern.
never saw Il cod but what it looked to me as if
We're | to request the loan of dollar it would
answer no and stick to il everyti time He is
bald-headed and is smooth shavtn. with the
exception of small goace on bis chin. He is
not handsome when alive, and never vet have
seen inscribed on his tombstone those familiar
words. "he was beautiful in death" The eX-
preston on the face Of diving cod is enough
10 take gate of the hinges
The propelling power of the cod is obtained
by tins, which are inserted into him at proper
places and by their means he gets along swim
mingly lie lives at the bottom of the sea and
never comes to the top but once. and seldom
returns again alive. 1t matches its family there:
il keeps its matches down. to use al sea phrase.
a cod is S,000,000 egg power. | counted the
eggs Of a large one once, and there |were $780,
Oh, but that was more than a fhir average.
This puts the hen way back in tile scale as Il
shell fish and l think it great mistake that
our farmers do not keep less hens and more
cod fish.
The cod we read of weighs from 80 to %
pounds. but those we catch weigh from TO -.
still, quite number of them will weigh hun
dred pounds, but it takes quite number to do
IT, One great article of value in the cod is its
oil well. which is situated in its liver, from
which is obtained cod liver oil. These cod livers
are mostly obtained from the hake and had
dock, the cod furnishing them yieariou,iy, a. it
We're. Cod liver oil is chiefly used Us a iiledi-
cine for consumptivcs. The patient is given to
understand that be must take the oil or the con-
SUMPTION He raises himself in bed and takes
one spoonful. and then motions them to take
away the oil and N a feeble voice saws Nov,
bring on your consumption" AS Il general
thing. people do not like cod liver 0 l. and it is
seldom used on buckwheat> in place of syrup.
After the cod i, dead he is embalmed in salt
10 make him keep. That is the way the old
lady Lot was fixed. She was turned into a
pillar Of salt, and have fed on cod that whole
pillow of salt had been turned into. 1t always
seemed to me that Lot had good thing in that
little saline family difficulty of his.
can see him sitting at dinner and reaching
his knife across the table and scOoping a small
junk out of his wife in order to season his soup.
And then during mosquito time she must have
been Il real blessing to him, when after having
retired for the night a stray mosquito would
creep through hole in the netting and bite him
on the foot. can picture him out as yvidly as
23c. chrome, reaching the afflicted member
across the bed and rubbing the bite on Mrs.
Lot, thereby relieving the smart which would
otherwise have kept him swearing dll the bal
ance of the night.
An! we often think that those Billie churae-
tiers had Il hard Lot, but the fact that they lived
to be eight or nine hundred Years oil and had
good heads of hair like Absalom and Sampson.
shows Us as plainly is dye on a moustache that
wives and mOther-in-laWs We're built on diff
ferent plan from those of to-day.
Owing to a misplaced switch find that have
run Oft the track little, and as | was remark
ing. before the barometer was invented the salt
cod was Il sign of a "dry spell" 4 salt cod
will by actual measurement keep Il man dryer
than an umbrella and a whole suit bf rubber
clothes.
\ small plate of fish is now kept oh I'LL bars
of good moral character, and one or two pieces
Of it will make man rs dry as if he had eaten
volume of the Congressional Gob4. \ dry
cod resembles Il Bazaar pattern of il patent
shirt bosom, and it is said that the Cape girls
Use them winters to slide down hill OH.
The cod is caught in the same waN that the
small boy catches apples, by hooking them,
with this ditference-one bites after il is hook
ed and the other is hooked after it bites. There
is line connected with the hook in botl eases,
though the lynn of the small boy generally gets
tangled up more as he reels it off than does the
cod line.
! have recently been fishing for cod. 1t is
noble sport and is the missing link between fun
and labor. think if | had been paid for my
sport | should have considered it worth about
fifty dollars day as times are now. If it.is
worth two dollars cord to saw wood and
thirty cents Il ton to carry in coal, fifty dollars
Il day is none too much to pay Il man fbr catch
ing cod fish. The next day after fiShed my
hands looked like a couple of Cincinnati cured
hams, with five Bologna SausageS stuck into
them for fingers. | could not get them into
bed with me for two weeks.
! baied my hook with red herring; | had
read herring made good bait. so tried ii. | gave
my hooks a fling over the side of the vdssel and
let the line run out. When it stopped my next
ncighbor told me that he noticed my hooks
We're tangled when | threw my line dut and
he said better pull in and fix them. That man
never realized the danger he was in. For Il few
minutes | fully intended to murder him, and
have been sorry ever since that | did not. |
commenced to pull in my line, and the longer
pulled the greater my desire to kill that man. |
thought that we had made mistake in The
fishing ground, and that | must be fishing
through the earth down into the China sea. AS
my hooks came out of water my neighbor said
''let 90 again; | was mistaken. Your hooks
are all right" He never spoke again, and when
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