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Show CIO LOE-STEfl POUNli. A Million of 'tlio f'oiitliBoiiio hlirllllalt Slilppel front It riwly. There in u lobster furin tir pound, nn ItiMCiillotl twelve m'ret lit eMunt lit Sotllhpoit Mo II t ItoslOU (lube tlo-HcrlliOH tlo-HcrlliOH tbl i pound, the mt.t Mic,.e-sful on the OiKist. wlieii, nro milium lob-sternaro lob-sternaro shlpivedoiic'i vnr Tlirpnund t.s fornutl Lv bull. ling a Mlid ibnii ncroawa a t,ilov,iter imivc 'I'Iim dnm (UhiM not ttutt' nsit. hiKh vvnU r mark, but acniNH the lop N placed a f.-noe of iron rods p i muting a dally enango ol water, and preventing tlio lobster from om aping In the swing and fall Ibiisl-noM Ibiisl-noM i nm brihU Whon tho (Wier-mon (Wier-mon bring the h. listers to tho uund tlio ' If-li ' n . tlwv are cnlltiil. aro ImUttHl to the 1I4111. metaaured, anil Ihoaw wltitli are more than ten and me In If liubea long tlio legtil limit, are tin iivv 11 in If a lobster ts olever Ihm life Li tin ptmud may bo lonf und futlofj'iy If bo la stupid bo will be llxhml out with a drag wine and packed ui a barrel, Willi n, pleco of ieo for a pillow and wDl to Boston The seine ih tuiiile of ttmtt tvvlnu and is weighted at tho bottom with a heavy chain long tlio top l a row of Corks, which iiihitilii the weight of tho seine while the chain tlingnon tho bottom of tho pound A i ingle, ensl of this seine will bring up lubslers enough tn (III cloven barrels The ehnln n It sweeps along the bottom -.tirs up H10 lobsters, which immediately shoot backward Into tin .lack l tne I" twklng tlitm nut tin men winr heavy mittens though evcu then they nr' "lien uli(ied In the pound thu Itibstors tiro fed on salt her ring men towing uhout In sUUTs and pitching tho burring overboard This m called ' feeding tho chickens," nnd It lakes nbtiiit six barrels to tuuko n light liiilihPon'ftfr the Hook Thero aro said to bo' 11 number of old bard sheila in tho Kouthiiort farm which for years havo.ovathid (tho easts of tha Irng Two of epormous, blwj iavo bo 001110 qulto Ininoliiid crawl abotit Intho shallow water. Tho ago of the lnl-Hterlsadlibated lnl-Hterlsadlibated ti'm'sllon Tho small marketable spocimeus aro generally htippowd to bo from four to six years 11I1I, but somo loUtors are bellored tQ llvo to tho irrcon old ago of twenty-live years. |