Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 776
nough there to fry for supper, andbeef enough to make a big pot of soup for thewhole family, and you ve spiled it all, fishin forthat one crab, which aint no good at all, by him-self. Yes, says he, but I might a caught alot ocrabs. Thats so, says I, and GeneralWashington might have married Queen… … THE DRUM-FISH. weighted to make it sink, with a small net attachediunder the hoop. Some bait is fastened in themiddle of the net, and the whole is lowered to thebottom by a rope. The net is occasionally hauled1 up, and sometimes there is a crab in it, and some-times there is not. I knowed a boy…
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