The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-18

themselves into a froth on the rocks ~
Outer Island. home of Addison T.. YER
rlll. professor at Yale and Govornmeri
expert in the bureau of fisheries FOR
many years"
There was no label on either tha
lobster or the barrel in which no lay
squirming the topfnost of hundred
companions, nothing that wrote a lfe
history So large that "A mere passcrhy
could read 1t at a glance. Yet this
veteran fisherman saw and dcduced Il
all. Could he prove it? He would try
The loss of an eye from one " thos.
movable stalks on the Holsters head
and a cataract like film over the oth.r
proved him to be blind. They also tod
the story of a battle with a Blacklist
perpetual war from birth is on he
tween this fish and the Crustacean
Blacklist have an appetite for lobster
that would make the most ardent de-
voices Of the broiled ones in any Broad.
way palace appear as mere nibbiers.
In this instance blaCkfish had been
beaten i'm his fight for n meal. for the
lobster had lost but one eye Had tn
Ash got both there would have been
40 lobster and no deduction. Instead
the fish. using its own body as a bat.
terlng RAM would have crushed the ! %
out Of its blind and helpless prey b.
beating the shell against the rocky bot
tom Of the sea. Then with its sheepl.he
teeth the fish would have dncd. Such Is
the cheerful custom OF the Blacklist
after dcpriving lobster of its "ya-.
But in this engagement the lobster
had probably caugh. the attack..E
blackfish with one Of his huge claws and
the wouldbe eater had become ~
eaten. 1t was an obvious story 10 oN-
who knows the habits Of the two dent
gems Of the sea.
Blind as he now was the lobster mus
have been fed 10y his mate. lie ,or'd
get his food In no other way. She foi
and protected him as she did during
those periods when he shed his shell
and was helpless. That was plan 90,
any one familiar with the etiquette and
family affairs Of the lobster tribe.
HOLSTERS always back into the pos
used To- catch them. Tney cant get IN
any other way because Of their hg
claws. This blind one must then hav,
backed In 10y accident or. guided 10y NJ
mate. followed her in when she wen
in To get the fish heads used for ha''
50 far il was easy.
Color, size and shape make IL loo
like a Long Island Sound lobster. Isl, =
Ash are more numerous and vorac.ors
Off the 1himbles than any other pa.
know II Is the sort of a bottom
Holsters like Jagged rocks fun o.
crevlces. Blackfish know it and forac
accordingly Both are plenty from
Faulkner's. Just cas-, OF Outer Island.
around Niggcrhcad Reef Eranfori
Beacon and west to Cow and Calf. ~"
let's find out where the HOLSTERS cam"
| from" suggested the grizzled old Sh""-
! lock Holmes Of the sea.
The marketman bought them from
/ the fishing schooner Jane, just in from
New London and tied up back of H."
market. There then the clue ran and
the amateur Watson led The fish
Holmes To It,
ON board the Jane the sk.pp"r
acknowledged selling Holsters TO IT,"
marketman named He left New Io"
don with a miscellaneous cargo q; nsN
OF the Thlmhles ne picked ny three
lots Of Holsters from men clearing the.
pots and got two lots of small ones ~
New Haven breakwater, Most ~ ~.
big ones he got from De- footc who
pots run from Outer Island cast 'o
Faulkner'S: he reckoncd those asked
about must have been in that lot.
That looked pretty good FOR the Sher-
lock Holmes Of the fish market
How did | guess it" Didn't guess
at all" he explained. KNEW wat
was talking about. | lohSter,d those
waters for twelve years. What ! DIT
not know about Holsters and blacklist
: and their habits Prof. Nerill did. P