It's a full catch today, ain't it?" He pointed at the pens piled high with cod. "What water did ye hev, Manuel?"
Harvey followed Penn, and sat down before a tin pan of cod's tongues and sounds, mixed with scraps of pork and fried potato, a loaf of hot bread, and some black and powerful coffee.
'
Cod's head-and-shoulders,' says the captain, and helps me.
In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape
Cod the eleventh of November, in the Raigne of our Sovereigne Lord, King James of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland, the fiftie-fourth, Anno.
"I had always fancied," the Baron faltered, "that
cod were salt-water fish?"
They first caught crabs and quohogs in the sand; grown bolder, they waded out with nets for mackerel; more experienced, they pushed off in boats and captured
cod; and at last, launching a navy of great ships on the sea, explored this watery world; put an incessant belt of circumnavigations round it; peeped in at Behring's Straits; and in all seasons and all oceans declared everlasting war with the mightiest animated mass that has survived the flood; most monstrous and most mountainous!
The family doctor gave her
cod liver oil, then iron, then nitrate of silver, but as the first and the second and the third were alike in doing no good, and as his advice when spring came was to go abroad, a celebrated physician was called in.
He broke surface and dropped a ten pound rock
cod into the canoe, the line and hook intact, the latter still fast in the fish's mouth.
That's about all I'm good for now--catching trout and
cod occasional.
They possess a quite dazzling and transcendent beauty which separates them by a wide interval from the cadaverous
cod and haddock whose fame is trumpeted in our streets.
Every one knows that by the peculiar cunning of their gills, the finny tribes in general breathe the air which at all times is combined with the element in which they swim, hence, a herring or a
cod might live a century, and never once raise its head above the surface.
Jennings on her side treated them both with all possible kindness, was solicitous on every occasion for their ease and enjoyment, and only disturbed that she could not make them choose their own dinners at the inn, nor extort a confession of their preferring salmon to
cod, or boiled fowls to veal cutlets.