A PROFITABLE FISHERY. 



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THE CRAB. 



tached. As they are placed at the pyloric extremity, or 

 outlet of the stomach, the food, after undergoing the 

 action of the jaws, is re-chewed or triturated by the 

 stomach-teeth, before entering the digestive tube, where 

 it comes in contact with the biliary fluid of the liver. 



The lobster and crab fishery can be conducted without 

 much capital, and in the intervals of the fishermen's re- 

 gular employment. The Scotch laird's advice to his son, 

 says Bertram,* to "be always stickin' in the ither tree, 

 it will be growin' when ye are sleeping' ' holds good in 

 lobster-fishing. The " pots," as they are called, may be 



* Bertram, " Harvest of the Sea," p. 386. 



