Blue-fish were about done with, when one day Dan brought in some mackerel from Boon Island: they hadn't been in the harbor for some time, though now there was a probability of their return.

You are possibly aware, my dear Dolorosus,for I remember that you were destined by your parents for the physician of your native seaside village, until you found a more congenial avocation in curing mackerel,that the ancient medals represented the goddess Hygeia with a serpent three times as large as that carried by Aesculapius, to denote the superiority of hygiene to medicine, prevention to cure.

The latter, with their hard mouths, resembling parrots' bills, cut up the mackerel and herrings with great adroitness.

The early mackerel are frequently attended by a few mullet; and whenever they nearly, if not altogether, equal the mackerel in number, the circumstance is generally the presage of the approach of great shoals of mackerel.

When variety is desired, fillet the mackerel, boil it, and pour over parsley and butter; send some of this, besides, in a tureen. BROILED MACKEREL.

His voice had gone a-begging before he took it up, and applied it to the same trade; it was too strong to hawk mackerel, but was just soft enough for "Robin Adair."

While some loaded the boat, others with a hook and line caught some good fish, which resembled mackerel.

"Oh, no; you wouldn't have me thrown out!" chuckled Hank, resuming his task of scaling a mackerel.

The general storekeeper, who was sorting mackerels, straightened up, wiped his briny hands on his apron, and said: 'I expect there's goin' to be a lecture.