. The story of Anthony Coombs and his descendants . J to 3 centseach; and for the cannery size, $ per 100 they are growing scarce and bring 20 to 30 centseach, and 50 is considered a good days catch. Mr. Coombs says his best days catch was 400 mar-ket size and $ worth of cannery size. What asight that catch would have been to a landsman! Fourhundred large lobsters, with their big ugly claws,their bluish green shells, and their waving feelers,if traveling in a row would make a line at least500 feet long, and the smaller ones would double they would cover the floor of a
. The story of Anthony Coombs and his descendants . J to 3 centseach; and for the cannery size, $ per 100 they are growing scarce and bring 20 to 30 centseach, and 50 is considered a good days catch. Mr. Coombs says his best days catch was 400 mar-ket size and $ worth of cannery size. What asight that catch would have been to a landsman! Fourhundred large lobsters, with their big ugly claws,their bluish green shells, and their waving feelers,if traveling in a row would make a line at least500 feet long, and the smaller ones would double they would cover the floor of a room 20 feetsquare. They are esteemed a great delicacy, and are cookedby plumping them all alive into boiling water. Adead lobster is no good, they say. Boiling turns thema bright red color: hence the saying, as red as a boiledlobster. After boiling, the shells are broken with ahammer and the white flesh is taken out and eaten —with a relish, if you have been hardened to it, or didnot see the ugly green lobster plumped into the boilingwater. 106. PiiK 1 : Carrie, i^: Ernkst,4: Alke. 2. Taken when aboit tostart (jn a foir years voyage. A8TC . \ IIow Oaitain ITioaly Camio io Sk||i,k in Maink. Capt. Al>i;ili;iiM II. llcaly was a cotton spiiiiici amia iialivc of lall Ivivcr, Mass. ()ii oih oI his visits toMaine lie liccaim- a((|iiaiiit(tl with Nancy Coombs ofBowdoin, and nianicd lui. Tlic Col lowing story showsInin as a man of worthy miittlc: Idir owucms of a nnllwhere he was oveisetM of tlio spinning department, ata ci^tain election commanded all of thcsir operativos tovote foi- a certain candidate. He \vent to one of theown(Ms and said. Have I not always given satisfactionin my d(^]>art nuMit V Yes, perfect. Well, youliire me. and my lime is yonrs, Imt my vote and myconscience are mine. 1 leave in two weeks. When he canu^ home he told his wife that he wasthiongli with working- in the mill, and thought hewould buy a farm. She laughingly told him that ifh
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