. New England; a human interest geographical reader. st- The Fishermen 85 sailing well-equipped schooners. They carry freshvegetables, frozen meats, and canned goods to eat, andthe crew has the best of fare. It requires three orfour months to lay in a cargo of cod. The decision asto just where a schooner shall fish depends a greatdeal on the depth of the water and the character ofthe bottom. By constant sounding with the leadline an expertcaptain gets toknow the realmbeneath thewaters lead hasa hollow at itslower extrem-ity in which alittle grease isinserted, sothat a sample
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. st- The Fishermen 85 sailing well-equipped schooners. They carry freshvegetables, frozen meats, and canned goods to eat, andthe crew has the best of fare. It requires three orfour months to lay in a cargo of cod. The decision asto just where a schooner shall fish depends a greatdeal on the depth of the water and the character ofthe bottom. By constant sounding with the leadline an expertcaptain gets toknow the realmbeneath thewaters lead hasa hollow at itslower extrem-ity in which alittle grease isinserted, sothat a sample of the sea bottom may be secured. The story istold of a certain old Nantucket skipper who couldinvariably tell just where his vessel was by examiningthe soil his lead brought up. In order to perplexhim his crew once put some garden loam from thehome island in the cup of the lead, made a pretenceof sounding, and then asked the skipper to name theposition of the schooner. The old fisherman tastedthe dirt on the lead — his favorite method of deter-. A fishing schooner on its way to theGrand Banks 86 New England mining its individuality — and suddenly exclaimed,Nantuckets sunk, and here we are right over MaamHacketts garden! As soon as a captain finds satisfactory fishing groundhe drops anchor. If the fish are very numerous andhungry, the men may fish with hook and line from thedeck of the schooner; but usually the dories are hoistedoverboard, and, with two men in each, go out to setthe trawls. Only the captain and cook remain on thevessel. A trawl is a line about a mile long from whicha thousand hooks hang on shorter lines two or threefeet in length. One man pulls at the oars, and theother baits the hooks and drops them over. At eachend of the trawl is a big float, and these floats aremarked with the vessels name. They are anchored,and the line is lowered to the bottom. In fine weatherthe dories go out early every day to take up the boat starts at one end of a trawl,
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