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it cannot he released, or the warp may snap off close to the 

 dredge, in either case the dredge is lost. It is less expensive 

 to leave it alone, and go on dredging, than to waste time 

 in getting it hack. Many are the lost dredges sprinkled 

 over the flats, and at phenomenally low tides, a few are 

 occasionally seen and recovered by longshoremen. When a 

 dredge is hauled on deck, the dredger turns out the 

 contents, consisting, perhaps, of some small soles, eels, the 



Culling out Oysters in Store. 



horrid-looking squid, crabs, cultch, and oysters, and " culls" 

 them over, chipping oysters off the cultch with an 

 implement called a " cultick," like a large oyster knife, and 

 having selected everything else usually retained, he 

 " -.hades" the rest through the porthole. It may he left to 

 th-j etymologist to decide if the words cull, cultch, and 

 cultick, have a common origin, as they appear to have. 



