The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-17

sting lige hornets wounds and last for
days. Some of our men get touched so
bad they have to lay off for a week. Can't
say what their book names are but thew
oeiong 70 the half animal, half veeeta bic
crowd that The sea anemones train with
Egg plants are pretty bad but they
can be lodged generally or whacked of
against the sunwale They are egg-shaped
purple affairs with fine bristly spines all
over ana its these tiny prickers that stick
IN ana breay off 20 make bad testers Pur-
ple-hearted sea urchins a young chan from
Boston called EN- but don't travel much
on what he said. Hearts were his spe-
clalty, l reckon. according to the way he
sailed around the Harwichport girls.
Cucumbers are no pleasanter to handle
Out, being larger, can be more readily
avoided They are long cylindrical fell
lows, notified and with blunt spines. A
NUMBER OF tough. rubbery feelers hang out
from the larger end and the sides are rich
ly frinsed on the lower part Sometimes
number hang TO a hook and come up as
heaVy as a lazy halibut In a thoughtless
moment the fisherman will yank the whole
mess in where it falls on his bare hands.
ana then he is in for a fortnight of smart
ing sores
pumpkins are like EN-. only larger and
fess Venomous. They are bright yellow.
s'reaked with darker bands. just like the
winter sqnashes on shore. Often We catch
of the hook "''i
Turnips are purple and white and Ioolr
very much like what the Boston fellow
cai'ed purple heart sea urcbins event
that they are pointed like the root of mr.
MP They have the same chestnut-burr
covering which make the others So nm.
comfortable to take off. Il takes q good
SIP win knife or bailing dipper to knock
one loose.
Sea nettles belong to the jellyfish fam
n.y. but they are not the sort of ieIIv mat
nourishes an invalid. In one wav tbev
might invigorate a fellow. for If he had n
single ounce of feeling left he'd cuss The
Whote dictionary through. Like the land
hettle, this one, instead of raising lumns
or single sores, just covers a whole hand
with a redness like a fever rash and
there viii be a million stingarees In every
square inch of skin. AS these are floating
pests one may get stung swimming or
washing out fish or reaching over 10 Hft
IN a heavy catch-in dozens of ways. WHY.
calculate I've enlarged my vocabulary
by some three-score cuss words lust In
vented to mt the stngs of sea nettles The
college men say they're phosphorescent al
night and they certainly are but when
they tasten on real live Cape Colder in
broad daylight there's real sulphur and
birthstone breaks loose on the air.
Burdocks are nasty both in looks and
to touch. In fact they're a nuisance ON
shore and sea, though the name Is the only
point OF resemblance. They are more like
a crooked root than anything else. The
sting is only trifiing. but they are bad line
snarlers, for they turn and tumble like
circus men as soon as they make fast to n
hook.
Lemons are light yellow and oval. They
make a bad blister when they strike.
though thanks be to Providence, that Is
not often
Lettuce is not the least of our annoy
ances Everybody knows the big brown
and green streamers that drift ashore after
heavy storms. Well, those that wash in
are broken in two or three lengths and
were originally from ten to twenty-five
feet long. The green Is tender and will
tear loose, but when a fellow gets fast on
brown leaf he's gone many times. for
the stuff Is hard-rooted. 1t is as flexible
and as strong as well-cured leather. Both
sorts wrap round and round the hooks
hiding the bait so that no cod or halibut
can possible nose it out.
Asparagus we have too a rare and
rather pretty vegetable. 1t is such Gu
riOsity that 1 took the last one / got over
to Dennis, where there's a man that has a
regular museum in his house. He called
it by name the minute he set eyes on It
and the name alone would swamp a dory
so I've never told the men. Asparagusls
bad enough. It's written down in my hat
band here. 'C-i-d-a-r-i-s C-l-a-i-r-g-e-r-a
cider is-well, it's too hard cider for me.
and I strongly suspect the man who got up
the name wasn't bread and milk fed,
either
queer business, hey? There's my broth
er-in-law working a garden patch over
Yarmouth way and mourns cause he can't
raise enough vegetables; here l am mad
because 1 raise too many"