The Florence tribune., 1898-06-25
CAUGHT TIE EDUCATED CRAB.

''4@SAA Aets7e sSCAAs DOhuu over Lnc lillS Of Hariscrabble, he was close hauled and laying course us tortuous as the wake 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 be had to knock of cruising between Bishop and Clerks lighthouse and the Hand kerchief ledge, and do all his fishing in the bay or off the breakwater. He he'd always maintained that the Educated Crab was raisod in Buzzald's bay and th-t ii kad legs around New Bedford. | showed 2 vicious knowledge, accord lag so Cap'n Eph, only Co have been gained by long experience among whalemen
 T s'Poee that air crab hez been afoul my line et least 1even hundred times, !" remarked Capn Eph when he stood in front of the poet office and displayed the cadayer of the crab. which he had brought from the beach carefully wrapped in paper.
 How do 1 know it's the same crob? !? Don't yer s'pose kin tell his figger head from yourn2 (addressin1 the neighbor on his left and pointing to the one on his right.) Crabs hev phizes jest ez much e pussons. Sides, there never wus crab afore that WIZ sheathed all along It's keel and deck with barnacles. I've hearn tell thet yer could tell tn age uy rattlesEake by tn rnttles he steered by. Ei thet holds good in tn case uv erabs this'n' must be nigh thousand years old.
 Tt ud eteal bait faster'n hull school uv flyers. Thet's where his eddication cum in. I've leaned over the gunwale when I wuz fishing in clear water an watched him skirlnish round morn 50 times. He'd go skuttlin' round ny hook four or five times, ies' ter get tn bear ings uy tn bait, but he wouldn't make DO effort ter tech tn bait until he'd gone up ag,in tn tide for two or three faith oms. Then he'd come sailin' back with the tide on his beam an heave to about three inches from my line.
 Every other crab would hey jea' grabbed fur tn bait an made sail. That wuzn't tn style of tn Eddicated Crab, howsomeyer he'd les port his helm Gn' swing athwart tn tide till he'd got his starboard claw fore an oft with my line, an t2ea he'd grab th' hook by tn eye ! nu' pi | its hiziness end away from his sh.la he pfchea the bait of with i7Ssz5 5-11.-el.ss. IAdldnli ulatter how fast ] Aaalol in th' line, he'd bev th' hook eafs ty ta' tsra-o l rized him 50 the edge uv th' water.
 "He spilled my lshin' fur three sum meTa, but I hotched him at last. How fl cum about shows tlsat tn snnrtest crab ain't no way superior to man eI ii meidlea wfsh rum. Night afore las opened half 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 used to rub my leg fur rheumatic. I'd disremembered all about that bottle when I cum hum long about nine o'clock O night an tried to light tn glim. Whilst wuz feolin' round fur a match knocked tn bottle over an most all the likker swashed down on them cir clans I cussed myself fur O lubber all night, fur had pains in my leg an stumach mighty bed. But I ain't sorry thet I spilled tn hkker now, seein' that kctched tn eddicated crab.
 ''I thot ez the lilcker would be likely to spile tn bait, an sure enough didn't git bite till tn tide wuz about ebb an tn ole crsb hove in sight. He took to the rum soaked bait Jest ez kindly ez 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 30 wobbly that 1t sot me ter thinl1in. Says ter myself, you bev sartainly got brains enough to git tangled up in your latitude of you hist in much more uv that cargo.' So I jist 1ambed tn hook full ny rum-soalred clans an let Cap'n Crab navigate all over the bottom with it. Bimeby 1 seed thet he was too wobbly ter steer within three pints uv his course. He he'd to tack half doSer times afore he could lay himself along side tAs hook when I haited up agin and then he jest grabbed at th' bait hook and all, regardless O conse- heeences. I let him git 0 good hold aforaI yanked. an when did give pull on tn line I druv tn hook nigh half through his port quarter. It wasn't time for tn wink UT Q yallerleg's eye afore he'd him in tn boat; an he lay thar an blinked at me ez drunk ez a shanghaied foremast hand in tn fo'kas- tie uv Baltimore packet. Thet's how l kotched th' eddicated crab."-Boston Traveller.
 A pretty manner of serving oranges for dessert is thus: Peel the oranges down to the stem end; leave tiny piece of skin there. Remove the white part, which has Q bitter taste, from half the peels and with sharp scissors cut into sllreds. For half a dozen oranges take 1A teacupfuls of water and pour it over the shredded rind. Add 11s cupfuls Of granulated sugar and boil until it is l jellied siEnp. Separate the oranges into small sections, leaving them fastened tooether at tho stem end and starting