Cape Cod, new & old . Chaptee XWELLFLEET AND CAPE FISHING THE popular food of any country offers asignificant index to that countrys tem-perament. Can we think of Germany withoutbeer, or England without roast beef, or Francewithout salads, or Cape Cod without fish? Theterm of Codfish Aristocracy — although itoriginated with the Dutch in 1347, the rivalparties being called hooks and codfish — isexcellently applicable here. It has frequentlybeen affirmed that a Briton would starve on thefish which sustains a good Cape-Codder. Cer-tain it is that, while in Roman Catholic coun-tries the fish suppl
Cape Cod, new & old . Chaptee XWELLFLEET AND CAPE FISHING THE popular food of any country offers asignificant index to that countrys tem-perament. Can we think of Germany withoutbeer, or England without roast beef, or Francewithout salads, or Cape Cod without fish? Theterm of Codfish Aristocracy — although itoriginated with the Dutch in 1347, the rivalparties being called hooks and codfish — isexcellently applicable here. It has frequentlybeen affirmed that a Briton would starve on thefish which sustains a good Cape-Codder. Cer-tain it is that, while in Roman Catholic coun-tries the fish supply is sometimes exhausted. WELLFLEET AND CAPE FISHING 127 by the end of Lent, this is a state of affairsnever duplicated in Barnstable County. Thefish dinner is a weekly rite throughout the year,and has been ever since the time when Bradfordreceived a Jesuit priest at his table and offered {him fish because it happened to be Friday —a courtesy that one might not have been led to ;expect from that uncompromising old Puritan^But in spite of the reputation of the Capethere are plenty of villages in it where you can-not find a clam chowder or buy a fresh mack-erel. Whatever sea food is caught is jentdirect to Boston: the natives are so busy play-ing skipper_gr_chauffeur or ^gardener to thesummer folk that they have no time for humbleroccupations. But at Wellfleet you are prettysure_to^fare well in regard to ocean you wish to delve back into historyand see how this town ranked among theother fishing towns, or whether you wish totaste the delicacy of a c[uahaugj)ie; or whetheryou merely want to tak
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