Outing (1885) (14779213604) - Public domain book illustration

Identifier: outing63newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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HERE WE WERE SURROUNDED BY OTHER SMALLER FISHING BOATS
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FISH I NO EN MASSE 231 panionship of their neighbors, and eachhugging greedily his two feet of bulwarkas though he expected someone to try totear him from it by force. Thats the way they always do, theswine, one old graybeard told me confi-dentially. They camp in a place assoon as they get bait, and they stay theretill we up anchor for home. Theydhog it all if they could, and with aheave of his shoulder he squeezed his waybetween a fat-faced Teuton and a stout-ish fisherwoman, who glared daggers athim for the intrusion. We were in close to shore, not morethan half a mile from the break, I shouldsay. Presently I heard the clang of theengine-room bell, the steamer lurched upon herself, lost headway, and swung offto the wind. But before the harshclamor of the windlass engine soundedand the chain cable rasped through herhawse pipes, she bloomed forth with a fu-rious radiation of lines that spouted fromher decks like sparks from a mine onFourth of July. On the upper deck, thegreat wooden r