Show maine the advent of mackerel upon the maine coast and into its countless little bays occasions great general excitement and a feeling of security against positive want the coining winter the good people all hasten to salt down a barrel of tish to each family and with pork and potatoes in tho cellar they feel that they can in a measure prepare like the oft quoted man in scripture to eat drink and be merry in these maine villages visited by the silvery trib there is an odor of cooking mackerel emanating from every cottage and the summer visitor may reckon on getting all the fish and more that he wants it is at such times that the boarding house keeper makes something on his people who pay him only a dollar a day boston herald |