The Florence tribune., 1897-09-18
CAUGHT THE EDUCATED CRAB.
IL Had Spoiled Cnp'n EDh's Fishing,
 But Was Landed by Medford Rum.

It Had Spoiled Cnp'n Eph's Fishing,
 But Was Landed by MedGord Rum.
 The Educated Crab came to grief the other day and Cap'n Eph Browles vis- ited the village to celebrate the event When last seen, bound over the hills of Hardscrabble, be was close hauled and laying . course as tortuous as the wake 1 of mackerel smack beating to wind ward against tide and a stiff no'th- easter
 Cap'n Eph had been fishing for the Educated Crab ever since he was so afflicted with rheumatism that he had to knock off cruising between Bishop ard Clerks lighthouse. and the Hand kerchief ledge, and do all his fishing in the bay or eff the breakwater He had 1 alvays maintained that the Educated l Crab was raised in Buzzard's bay and 1 hat it had legs around New Bedford.
 howed q vicious knowledge. accord ing to cap'n Eph, only to have been
 siDed hy long experience among Wliemen.
 | s'Pose that air crab hez been afoul inv iine st least 'leycn hundred times, ' remarked Cap'n Eph when he stood in front Of the post office and displayed tho cadaver of the crab, which he had brought from the beach carefully wrapped in a paper.
 How do l know it's the same crab :? Don't yer s'pose I kin tell his fggers head from yourn? Addressing the neighbor on his left and pointing to the one on his right.) Crabs hev phizes jest ez much cz pussons. Sides, there never wusa crab afcre that wuz sheathed all along it's keel and deck with barnacles I've Aearn tell thet yer could tell tn age uv aIrattlesnake by tn rattIes he steered by. If thet holds good in th' case uv crags this'n' must be nigh thousand l years old.
 T. ud steal bait faster'n hull school uv flyers. Thet's where his eddication cumin. I've leaned over the gunwale when wuz fishing in clear water an watched him skirmish round morn 50 times. He'd go skuttlin' round my hook four CT five times, jes' ter get tn bear ings uy tn bait, but he wouldn't make no eIort ter tech tn bait until he'd gone up ag'in tn tide for two or three fath- i oms. Then he'd come sailin' back with | the tide on his beam an heave to about fhree inches from my line.
 Every other crab would hey ies' grabbed fur tn bait an made sail. That wuzn'b th' style. of th' Eddieated Crab. howsomever he'd jes' port his helm an swing athwart tn tide till he'd got his starboard claw fore an aft twith my line, an then he'd grab tn hook by tn eye an pint it's biziness end away from his belly while he picked the bait of with his port claw. It didn't matter low fast 1 hauled in tn line, he'd hev tn hook i bare b5 th' time ! rized him to the edge av q water.
 ''He spilled my fishin' fur three sum uers E lsatatzesi- him at last. How it oum about shows that tn smartest crab ain't no way superior to man ef it meddles with rum Night afore las 1 opened half q bucket UT clans an set the bait down by the table right under where I'd sot nigh about full bottle uv Medford rum; what I used to rub my leg fur rheumatiz. I'd disremembered all about that bottle when I cum hum l long about nine o'clock O night an l tried to light tn glim. Whilst 1 wuz foolin' round fur match knocked tn bottle over an most all the likker swashed down on them air clans. I cussed myself fur lubber all night fur had pains in my leg an stumach mighty bad But ain't sorry thet l spilled tn likker now, seein' that kotched tn eddicated crab.
 q thot ez the likker would be likely to spile tn bait, an sure enough didn't git bite till tn tide wuz about ebb an tn ole crab hove in sight. He took to the rum soaked bait jest ez kindly ez a prohibitionist away from hum He cleaned my hook an made sail fur his port, but bimeby he cum back under full headway an seemed dreadful eager fur mother bite. He got it, but acted so wobbly that it sot me ter thinkin'. Says ter myself, you hey sartainly got brains enough to git tangled up in your latitude ef you hist in much more uv that cargo So I jist jambed tn hook full uv ruI-soaked clans an let | Cap'n Crab navigate all over the bottom with it. Bimeby seed thet he was toe wobbly ter steer within three pints u, his course. He he'd to tack half a dozer times afore he could lay himself along side the hook when I baited up agin and then he jest grabbed at tn bait hook and all, regardless O conse- keeences. I let him git good hold afore yanked, an when did give put on tn line I druv th' hook nigh hali l through his port quarter. It wasn't time for th' wink UT Q yallerleg's eyt afore [ he'd him in tn boat; an' he lay thar ana blinISed at me ez drunk ez 2 shanghaied forenast hand in tn fo'kas tie uv q Baltimore packet. Thet's how I kotched tn eddicated crab. ."-Bostor Traveller.
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 shreds. For half dozen oranges talk | 11h teacupfuls of water and pour it ove'
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