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A Banker Discharging Her Fare. 



Here we give a familiar scene to the Winter fisherman and the many who 

 congregate at this busy spot — a Banker getting ready to discharge her fare 

 of halibut at the Atlantic Halibut Company's wharf. She has had a hard 

 time of it on the passage home, as it was cold and storm}', and got badly 

 iced up. But she is all safe now, with her halibut in prime order, a quick 

 market and good prices. This compensates for the hardships endured, and 

 the fishermen are feeling jubilant at the prospect of a pile of crisp bank 

 notes when they take their check up to the bank to be cashed. The 

 square-rigger is a salt vessel at the head of Parkhurst's wharf, which gives 

 a commercial aspect pleasing to look upon. 



A Good Answer. — At the hearing before the Fishery Committee at the 

 State House, not long since, a veteran fisherman from this city was asked 

 by one of the lawyers what he knew about fishing. "What don't I know, 

 would be a better question to ask, 'Squire," was the reply, "Why, I've fol- 

 lowed it forty years and caught everything that swims, from a whale to a 

 shrimp." There was a hum of subdued merriment, and he was not further 

 interrogated. 



