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CRAB, SIIKIMP, AND LOBSTER LORE. 



sonorous Greek nanic (without Avliicli success would be 

 doubtful)^ ^^ the fashionable colour.''^ 



The juvenile members of most of our seaside com- 

 munities are much given to crab-lishing, and may be 

 seen from early morn to evening late, dangling their 

 legs over some convenient rock, sea-wall, or landing- 

 steps, and with a piece of twine to v/hich a dainty 

 morsel of fish offal has been tied, doiug their best to 



induce some greedy young crabling to grasp it with his 

 nippers, when, with a sudden jerk and triumphant 

 shout, the deluded victim is pitched out high and dry 

 before he knovrs what he is about, and is then tied by 

 the leg and led about like a lilliputian pig, who 

 strongly objects to either going to market or staying at 

 home. Fortunatel}^ for him he is not very good to eat, 



