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Show REMARKABLE FISH STORY. School of Itlnrk II. li llroiitflit a 1'urtmi to tlw I'roplr f Cnt Coil, One day In November, set'eral years ago, the good people living op the Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts ly shore nt the north end of Capo Cod, wore wrought to the highest pitch of excitement by the arrival ar-rival of mi Immense school of blacklist! black-list! which wore on the Hats chasing halt, as the small ilsh they feed ou aro called, and gradually working Inshore. In-shore. The news spread like wildfire; vitiligo stoics wcro hastily closed, schoolboys deserted schoolrooms, and even women Hocked to the shore. Tho flats along the const make out from half to a mile and a half practical! level and almost dry at low tide wlu.ro at high tide is four to eight feet of water. No school of blacklist; as large ns this had ever been heard of. And by good luck the tide was ebbing. Hastily the boast wcro launched, each taking n hnlf-dozcn men and boys, those iot rowing being nrmed with sticks nnd pieces of board. In n quarter of on hour they were lu position, po-sition, In halt circle and to leeward of the fish. "Close up now," camo from the "commodore," "and mnke nil the noise you cnnl' And they did, fairly churning churn-ing the water with boards and sticks. Tho thousand ot squid and herring on which tho blackllsh were feeding assisted In this movement by getting Into shoal water ns far ns possible so that the blackllsh could not follow them. Tho result wns Inevitable, tho fast ebbing tide soon began to lenvo the big Ilsh In rucIi shonl water that it was dltllcult the larger ouch to swim. Gradually tho circle of boats grow nearer and nearer; and in two hours ninety per cent, of tho entire school was stranded on tho lints. For weeks after the villagers were engaged In cutting up mid trying out tho oil. Tho total catch netted some ?23,000. |
