The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-01-22
DEEP WATER TRU KERS.
Many Vegetables Raised by Fishermen
and Ali of Them Nuisances.

MANY NtEtAdtitN isti~ih " ''''' '''N'
and n, OF Them Nuisances.
1--WE handle more garden truck in our
business than folks on shore would i'm
agine." said the skipper Of hallibut
smack as he watched barrow load OF
stores from a South street chandler S
rolled across the gangpiank. and II our
fare was confined 20 canned stun we
should be mighty grateful. Luckily we
don't have 20 eat the fresh product or
we wouldn't ever so home TO HarWich-
port any more.
"Our little garden plot lies under from
four to sixty fathOms OF salt water. Sc
cure from summer drought and untmely
frosts. The chickens never scratch up
tho new-pianted seeds and the pigs can {
root up anything We'd pay them both
good wages II they'd destroy the whole
plaguey plantation. though. Strawber-
ries are the worst Of an. and being
lightly rooted will pull up on the hook
every time you rub over the patch. They
rIpw thick on the pest halibut ground.
too. and are as beautiful as the land
port. Red and white and luscious
l2Oking they'll raise an armful Of pur-
ole swollen blotches in two minutes af-
tor YOU touch 'em. Itch and sting like
hornets wounds and last fCv days. some
Of our men get touched so bad they have
10 lay OF for a week. Can't say what
thCtr book names are, but they belong
10 the half-animal, half-vegetable crowd
that the sea anemones train with.
Egg plants are pretty bad. but they
can bee lodged generally or whackcd Oh
against the gunwale. They are egg
shaped purple affairs with fine brstly
spines all over, and it's these tiny prick
ers that stick I'm and break of to make
bad testers. Purple-heart sea lrchins
young chap from Boston called 'cm
but 7 don't travel much on what he 50 !d
Hearts were his specially / reckon. ac
cordIng TO the way he sailed around the
UarwichpUt girls
"Cucumt"rs are no pleasanter 10 han
de but being larger can be more read
ily avoided. They arc long cylind~i-al
fellows. notified and with blunt spineA
A number Of tough mulberry feelers hang
out from the larger end and the sides
| are richly fripeed on the lower part
Sometimes number hang 10 "A hook
and come up as heavy as a lazy halibut
In "a thoughtlass moment the fisherman
will yank the whole mess I'm where il
will fall on his bare hands and 'hen he
is in for q fortnight of smarting sores.
"Pumkins are like EN-. only larger ard
less venOmOus. They are bright vel
IKE the winter souashes on shore. often
we catch one SO heavy that IT breaks
or the barb Of the hook.
"Turnips are purple and white and
look very much Ike what The Boston TEL
low vailed purple heart sea urchins. eN-
cept chat they arc pointed like the ROOT
Of tvrnip. They have the same chest
nut-buIT which make the others so un-
comfort Vble to take off, 10 takes a
good clip with o. knife or baiing clipper
TO knock one loose.
"Sca D. cities belong 20 the ieilyGst
family. % 1T they are not the sort Of iel
ly that ll0urishes an invalid I'm one
way they might invigorate a fellow,
for If Dc sad single ounce Of feeling
left he'd cuss Che whole dictionary
through T. Ike the land nottle. this one
instead of aising Jumps or single sores.
just covers whole hand with a red
ness IKE fever rash. and there will
be million stingaWes I'm every square
inch OF skin. As these are floating pest.
one may get .Tfung swimming or wash
Ing OUT FISH or rca ching over 10 Lift i'm
"a heavy catch-In dozens OF WAYS WHY
i calculate We enlarged my vocal ularv
by some thrce-seore cuss words Just in-
vented 90 ht the stines of sea nottIes.
Tho college men say they're phospho-
resent at night. and they certainly are.
but when thcy fasren on a real live Cane
Colder jim broad daylight there's real
sulphur and brimt stone breaks loose on
the air.
"Burdocks are nasty both IN looks and
- touch. ln fact, they're a nuisance
ON snore and sea. though the name ia
tho only point OF resemblance. Thov
are more like crooked root than any
thiqg else. The sting is only trinIinr
but they are bad line snarlers for they
turn and tumble like circus men as soon
as they make fast 10 a hook.
Lemons are light yellow and oval
They make bad blister when tbev
strike. though. thanks be to Providence
that = not often.
Lettuce are not the least of our an
noyanccs Everybody knows tho rio
brown and green streamers that drift
ashore after heavy storms Well. those
that wash in are broken I'm two or three
lengths ond were originally from ten 10
twenty-five feet long Tho green is ten
Ger ana viii tear loose, but when a fell
low gets fast on a brown leaf he's gone
many times, for ths stuff is hard-rooted
II IS as flexible and as strong
as weli-cured leather. Both sorts wan
round and round the hooks. hiding the
bait so no cod or halibut can possibly
nose it out
Asparagus we have. too, a, rare and
rather pretty vegetable. II is such a Gu
riosity that I took tho last one got
over 10 Dennis, where there's n man
has regular museum IN his house. lie
called 10 By name tho minute he set eyes
on II, ana the name alone would swamp
dory' so I've never told the men. AS
paragus bad enough. It's written down
ln my nat band here 'Cid-a-r-fe
C-l-a-i-r-g- terra cider swell is too
hard cider for me and / strongly sus.
pect the man who got no the na,no
wasn't bread and milk fed. either a
queer business. hey? There's nv
Drother-in-law working a garden patch
over Yarmouth way and mourns cause
he can't raise enough vegetables: hero
am mad because L raise too many