. In brightest summer land . redupon the pedestrian trip towards Telegraph Hill when an exclamationfrom one of their number was emphatic of the fact that a new causeof wonderment had arisen; aral this time it was the young lady,whose Oh ! proved even more expressive than had the occasional Ah ! of the Missourian in the course of the sail just ended. A fish-erman stood upon the sandy shore of the beach near at hand, makingshort excursions between his dory, half afloat and half ashore, and agreat cauldron, under which was a blazing fire of driftwood and with-in which the water was furiously boil
. In brightest summer land . redupon the pedestrian trip towards Telegraph Hill when an exclamationfrom one of their number was emphatic of the fact that a new causeof wonderment had arisen; aral this time it was the young lady,whose Oh ! proved even more expressive than had the occasional Ah ! of the Missourian in the course of the sail just ended. A fish-erman stood upon the sandy shore of the beach near at hand, makingshort excursions between his dory, half afloat and half ashore, and agreat cauldron, under which was a blazing fire of driftwood and with-in which the water was furiously boiling. The lid of the boiling potwas thrown back. After reaching both arms into his boat the manwould straighten up, revealing a squirming lobster of the very liveliestkind in each hand. Three or four steps would bring him to the sideof the cauldron, whereupon the lobsters were incontinently consignedto its boiling depths. The party were quite near enough to the sceneto witness its details and to question the i^rincipal X Mi^i^f;^^^ 1^ t^ V\- Bless me ! cried Beth; what is that man doing ? What are thosecreatures that he is throwing into the pot ? The question was directed to no one in particular, so the fishernia:ihastened to answer it. These ere is lobsters, he explained, as he dropped in two goodly-sized specimens; and they was crawlin along the bottom two hoursago. Theyve about done crawlin now, though, he added, philo-sophically. But lobsters are always bright red, replied Beth, and these aredirty, black, and green. 22 You wait half an hour till theyre biled, continued the lobster-man, working and walking as he talked. Theyll be red enoughwhen theyre done. What! Are you boiling them alive. asked the astonished girl,with most expressive face. Sartin! answered the fisherman. Vou wouldnt like to eat reckn, ef they was biled dead. Horrid! ejaculated Beth, who had received a revelation, the im-mediate result of which was to cause her mentally to forswear lobstersalad
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