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Mr. Peter Gott, the hero of this narrative, may not be a veritable rscnage of tlesl: and blood, but at all events, e is a genuine repre- sentative man, and we follow him in his vari- ous fortunes with rsonal interest, as a type of the hardy, sun-burnt, bold~spirited and

od-hearted fishermen of Massachusetts Bay.

'geon Cove, is little rock basin on Cape Ann, is well known to many 0 our summer tourists for its fine salt breezes and its delectable fresh fish, and it is at this renowned lccality,that we are first introduced to the adventurous Peter. He had just caught a noble fare of cod and haddock. but before being sold to the hawkcrs, who, were waiting on the shore, they mustba dressed : .

So, taking his darn bucket and reel, the fish- erman goes to the fish-house where he keeps his gear, and depositing them in their proper places, he takes his b his oi

ucket, and a sharp knife, and returns to his boat. 'l‘hen placing his harrow across the bows, he takes his stand in the water by its side. Then seizing a fish by the head with liisleft

hand, he makes a cut across the throat, just behind the gills; then slitting down the belly with one stroke, be seizes the liver between the edge of his knife and the thumb of his right hand, and, detaching it from its connec- tions, drops it into his oil-bucket which stands before hiiu, towards the stern. Now ing liisknife upon a thwart, he seizes the w iole mass of entrails in his right hand, and holding the fish firmly in his l.-ft, tears out the whole with a sudden jerk, and throws it into the water. Then he throws the fish into the bar- row,und seizing another with his lel't hand, and his knife with his right, goes through with the same motions. ' us he proceeds with the rapidity and regalarit of a machine. until the fish are all transferrc from the bottom of the dor into the hand-barrow. He now curries up is oil-bucket and empties the livers into a cask or butt which he keeps for that purpose. He is now ready to dispose of his fish. If the boats are all in, and the fares are not very large, the hawkers will offer seventy-five cents a hundred. After a good deal of haggling, Peter gets eighty cents for his. Taking them to the scale, which stands near the passage leading down to the beach, they are found to weigh 150 pounds. They are now taken to the waggun of the purchaser, who pays Peter one dollar and tn enty cents. He now returns to his boat, takes out his cars. dips up a bucket of water, washes out the boat, and throwing a bucket of water into it, rolls it over on its side and lets the water run out. l‘licn carrying a

his killick high on the beach, be gathers up his cars, and carries them to the fish-house. 'l‘ho houses are generally occupied in common by several dory men. each of whom pay rent for the corner in which he keeps his own gear.

Peter‘s mode of living, while pursuing his

rofession on th Banks, exhibits a variety not

ound on the bill of fare at the Astor House or Delminico’s. isbermen in those days ate much more fish on their tri .than the do at the present time. They were 'tted out with a good supply of salt pork and molasses, with a plenty 0 Indian meal, a little flour and hard bread. Their bread was made of meal and water, with a little salt and molasses added, and baked upon tin sheets or pieces of barrel heads, before the fire. Once or twice a week they lied tea made, by putting tea intoa boiler and adding a nan- tit_v of molasscs and boiling it as cogee is boiled. Coffee was seldom used at sea in those days, and their sugar was kept to sweeten their grog. which was duly served out to them twice a day. On b'unday,it was common to have a fiour sliort-cake. which was prepared in the following way: The head was broken out ofa fiour barrel ; the flour scooped out of the centre so as to make a basin-like cavity, snlliciently large for the cook's purpose; be then pc into it a pint of pork fat, which he had fried out ofsliees of salt pork, a quantity of moles- ses and a little hot water, and mixed in the flour until it was of the proper consistence. It was then taken out in a mass and baked in ii Dutch oven over the fire. This is no contempti- ble dish, and contains nearly as many good qualities as Lord Petei"'s leg of mutton ; and many a hearty breuktlist of a Sunday mornin do the fishermen make of it, with their pot o boiled tea. Those who have never tried a dish of boiled tea, will be surprised to find how ed a substitute it is for coffee, especially ifs ittle sweet milk is added just at the close of the boiling. in modern timcs,ths fishermen are fitted out with much greater variety and abundance of food, than in those days of which wears speaking‘; Salripork and beef, tatoes. and cabbages, ur an hard bread 0 a su e- rior quality from Johnson's bakery, and co three times a day, is their common fare. Cape Ann fishermen are famous for their good living. I have known men among them who have drunk their stron coffee three times a day for fcrtv years, an , as if on upon to prove the fallacy of all that has n said about the injurious elects of coffee, they h gs w o e

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of that time. But fish fresh, or corned was the principal article of food at the time when Pe- ter made his first trip to the Banks.

Do the lovers of lobster salad know the antecedents of their favorite refection?

Lobsters are taken in a sort of baskets culled lobsterpots. These are about three fcetlong, and two feet wide, of seiui-cylindrical form. that is, the bottom is fiat, and the sides and top are in the form of an char. At each end is an opening for the ingress of the lobster; around this o nening are placed short flexible pieces of woo , proyecting info the basket, so arranged that they will easily _seperate and allow the lobster to enter, but t on points close together after him and prevent his esoa They have a door upon the top, through which the lobster is taken out.

A long line is attached to these pots; a heavy stone, sufiicient to sink them, is placed in them. and they are baited with the heads or ofi'_al of fresh fish. and sunk to the bottom at about low water mark; the other end of the line is iimde fast to a block of light wood, cal- led a buoy. 'l‘he fishermen go out with their wlierries, frei hted with these pots, and drop them at short intervals along the shore. Du- ring the season of lobster-fishing which lasts from March to July, hundreds of these buoys may be seen bobbing up and down like so many seals‘ heads. 'l‘hc fishermen_visit them every morning, draw them up alongside of their boats, take out the lobsters, replenish the bait, and drop them again into the water. The lob- sters, when first taken, are very fierce, and seize with their strong pincers upon whatever may be within their reach. When thrown to- gether into the boat, they will grep le with each other and tear offeach other e fee ers and legs. Without much care in handling them, the fin rs of the fishermen get many a good hits. "0 prevent them from injuring each other, the fishermen provide sharp- inted wooden pegs. which they insert into t ejoint or hin e of their pincers, which prevents them from ciosing When they have visited all their pots, the row to their landing place. If they now wis to preserve them or several days, they put them into a long box or kennel, made of plank and bored ful of holes, which is moored in the water at a little distance from theshore. lfthey wish to prepare them imme- diatel for market, they are taken ashore in hand arrows and carried to a sort of shed, in , which is fixed a large cauldron. This is filled, with water. A brisk tire is kindled under this

crawling, squirming lobsters are thrown into it and covered with a heavy plank cover. Hero when taken our of the water was a dark green, becomes a bright scarlet. They are now ready; for the market. in this state we see them for sale on the stalls in our cities and hawkedg about the streets. , Peter Gott, too, found the mackerel a rather

And although they have been taken in immense} numbers for three-quarters of a century,their habits are not wcl understood. They often move in great bodies, apparently filling the‘ ocean for miles in extent. ' ‘hey are found near‘. the surface.

times, not it mackerel wil bite for days, although millions oi' them are visible in thel water. When they are in the mood for taking the bait, ten, twenty, and even thirty barrels are taken by a single vessel in a few hours. They usually bite most freely soon after sun- rise in the mornin and toward sunset in the evening. Thu-y at cease to bite about the

same time, as if they were actuated by a com mon impulse. They are easily frightened, and, will then descend into dce water. it has often ha ened,that a fleet o vessels has been lying o t ie Capo, II. mile or two from the shore,‘ in the midst ofn shoal of mackerel, and taking them rapidly upon their decks, when the firm of a an or the blast of a rock would send, over mackerel fathoms deep into the water, as sud only as though they had been converted ‘ into so many pigs of load; and perhaps it would be some hours before they would reap-,~ tear. They are caught most abundantly near‘ the shore and very rarely out of sight of land.‘

Mackerel, it seems, are fond of an carl ' breakfast, and the discovery of this oddity of‘ taste was a stepping-stone to Peter's fortune‘ and fame : . I

lie laid his course for Mount Desert Island,’ and lay for several days in the vicinity of the! island. Soon signs of mackerel began to: appear. They threw over their bated hooks, and now and then cnuglit ti mackerel. They continued in this way lor several days fishing through the whole day, and at the end of the week had taken two barrels of poor, small fish. Some of the crew were getting discouraged, when suddenly one morning, Just as the sun was rising. they found themselves surrounded. by mackerel ready to take the hook the instant it touched the water. They would seize bait, whether large or small, with the greatest avidity. They took them on to the deck with great rapidity, jerking them from the heck am-

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kettle, and when the water boils, the living,‘ l

they are kept boiling until their colour, which iw

‘left the boat. commence operations. queer fish : r Th“ lmblis °f "1959 ml‘ '3“ V"? P°°“ll‘“'- ‘in again sufficiently to float the boat,whcn they

soon as they were over the rail. and dropping] the book again instantly into the water. So

voracious were the fish, that they would often- I times seize the bare, uubaite hook, almost before it struck the water. This exciting scene continued about two hours, when all of a sad- den they caused to bite, and not another fish could they induce to take even the best-baited licok. Findin they could catch no more, they ceased their labour and pnrtook of their break- fast,whioh the cook had had ready for them more than an hour. After breakfast, the dressed and salted their fish, and found they lied taken twenty barrels in two hours. After cleaning the deck the again threw over their books, but few maekere were to seen. and of those which they saw swlluiin about so vessel only one now and then won take a hook.

'1he next morning the same scene was repeated. They turned out at daylight and cho ped into small pieces with a hatchet u u ab tick the smallest of the mackerel which tli: had oerght the precediu morning, and which they h ‘preserved in a rel of salt water for this purpose. They thus rcpnred two or three bushels of bait, that no time might be lost in preparing it after the fish beganto bite. Just

efore sunrise they began their work and this morning they took fifteen barrels. They could not account for these singular movements of tho fish. But they did not forget them; and learned to be always ready to tr their fortune with the risin of the su ' ‘bis accidental discovery, that mackerel had is habit of feed- ing early in the morning, contributed greatly to the success of their voyage.

Clam-diggi has many temptations for the eesachusetts. and the worthy Peter engages in the business on a large scale.

About this time the business of dig iiig clams was en in a large number 0 persons. They are salted and preserved in barrels, and used by fishermen as bait for codfish. For many nears past the digging and salting of clauis for

oston market has been an important business. These shell-fish abound in the extenivc flats at the mouth of Squam River, Essex River and Ips- wich River. These fiats are daily covered by the tide, and afford the feeding ground which the clams require. They miilti ly with astonishing rapidity. They are dug in tlio winter and spring. The business furnishes employment for men and boys, that in foruier ears were occupie in winter fishin . The work is done, of course. at low tide. V hen the tide is out, on pleasant winter days, one will often see gangs of ten, twenty or fifty inch and boys busily em loyed in turnin up the mud on the flats and picking u the c runs into buckets. The implement

icli they use is a stout fork with three flat prongs, each about an inch wide and ten or twelve inches long. The men 0 out on the flats in whorrics, when the ti e is retiring, and push an car into the mud, and make fast the boat to it, and as soon as the water has When a bucket is filled, it is emptied into the boat. They continue their work until the tide comes

pull to the wharf. On many places on the shores of these flats there are groups of small huts, ten or twelve feet square, with stone

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the tide is I on the flats, and in stormy weather, they are

employed in shocking them, as it is called, that, is, in opening the llltrll and taking out the clam,‘ which is done with a small, stout knife. As

the chims are taken froiu the shell, they are? dropped into a bucket: when the bucket is fill-,

clnm shells larger than the huts themselves, the ‘ accumulations of the winter's labor. The clam l diggers sell the produce of their labor to trad-j ers, who send their teams around to the huts weekly or daily, according to the wcutlier, anal carry them to their store-liouscs and repacki and salt them, and head them up in barrels,l when they are ready for the market. ‘

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