Show the small email boy goes crabbing Crabb lne now is the season when the merry I 1 crabber er net in hand wends bends his way to his bis favorite fishing grounds which are mostly found at the foot of C clinton un ton street and in the erie and brooklyn bro basins on each side of the long dock the millions of logs oga that a are re stored there offer secure fishing stations for hundreds of anglers for the angly looking but toothsome crustacean an all day naked youngsters are perched on these logs watching their bait chasing each other over the slippery lumber or diving g and paddling in the water the outfit of the crabber is simple enough if fully equipped he carries a round purse nia net stretched over an iron ring some two or three feet in diameter at the bottora bottom a stone is dropped to stretch the bet et when in the water the crab is a reedy feeder and not at all cloce choice in what it eats fish heads or cli chunks finks of halt half decayed meat are fastened across the net which is dropped in the water and secured by a rope to the stringy ece once in awhile it is hauled up and before master crab can disgorge he be is out of his hia element and transferred to a bag pr or basket there to squirm and pinch hinr h his fellow captives but the small bey boys j outfit is far V n I 1 r it cons consists ests of is a long iong handled net an and a piece of string with a chunk of c carrion arrion tied to cae jud this is lowered into the shallow water where crabs abound an and once in awhile the juvenile fisher draws the bait gently toward the surface the crab is gener ally too busy to do anything but feed until he is almost at the surface when the hie net is scooped under him and ho is ia landec lande with a whoop of exultation no f 0 ani angl tor for trout salmon or bluefish pursues his game more intently than the crabber doess does but how in these burning days the youngsters can remain naked on the logs for half a day without losing every particle of skin is a mystery i their yellow little hides seem as aa impervious to the suns heat as those of the EgYpt egyptian lan fellahs fellars fel lahs brockl brooklyn 7 n eagle ale |