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months in the year and have pitched their tents 

 on the Massachusetts coast, really seem to get 

 more out of the water than out of the land. 

 They get an extraordinary number of fish, lob- 

 sters, and clams, they get sea-weed which they 

 use as manure, and scarcely a day passes but 

 some kind of sea food does not make its ap- 

 pearance upon their table. I have never been 

 so fortunate as to be placed where the fishing 

 was of such a nature that I could depend upon 

 it from day to day to furnish the table. Never- 

 theless, I have no doubt that during the sum- 

 mer and autumn I have provided more than 

 fifty dollars' worth of good fish of various kinds, 

 and I leave out of account entirely the oysters, 

 because they can be had for almost the picking 

 up where we are. With us the bay furnishes 

 perhaps the most valuable manure to be found 

 along the coast the bony fish which the fisher- 

 men get in their nets in enormous quantities 

 and either sell to factories where the oil is 

 squeezed out of them or throw them on the 

 land to be used by the farmers as manure. 

 Making a liberal estimate, I should think that 

 the actual money value of the fish, crabs, and 

 oysters that I get during the summer must be 



