The fish in neighboring streams and lakes are so voracious, it is said, that fishermen have to stand out of sight behind trees whi...le baiting their hooks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Tis probable Religion after this Came next in order; which they could not miss.... How could the Dutch but be converted, when The Apostles were so many fishermen? Besides the waters of themselves did rise, And, as their land, so them did re-baptize.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One would like to know more of that race, now extinct, whose seines lie rotting in the garrets of their children, who openly profe...ssed the trade of fishermen, and even fed their townsmen creditably, not skulking through the meadows to a rainy afternoon sport. Dim visions we still get of miraculous draughts of fishes, and heaps uncountable by the riverside, from the tales of our seniors sent on horseback in their childhood from the neighboring towns, perched on saddle-bags, with instructions to get the one bag filled with shad, the other with alewives. At least one memento of those days may still exist in the memory of this generation, in the familiar appellation of a celebrated train-band of this town, whose untrained ancestors stood creditably at Concord North Bridge. Their captain, a man of piscatory tastes, having duly warned his company to turn out on a certain day, they, like obedient soldiers, appeared promptly on parade at the appointed time, but, unfortunately, they went undrilled, except in the manvres of a soldier's wit and unlicensed jesting, that May day; for their captain, forgetting his own appointment, and warned only by the favorable aspect of the heavens, as he had often done before, went a-fishing that afternoon, and his company thenceforth was known to old and young, grave and gay, as "The Shad."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As they are not seen on their way down the streams, it is thought by fishermen that they never return, but waste away and die, cli...nging to rocks and stumps of trees for an indefinite period; a tragic feature in the scenery of the river bottoms worthy to be remembered with Shakespeare's description of the sea-floor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the ministers of Truro, when I asked what the fishermen did in the winter, answered that they did nothing but go a- visitin...g, sit about, and tell stories, though they worked hard in summer. Yet it is not a long vacation they get. I am sorry that I have not been there in winter to hear their yarns.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have heard of a minister, who had been a fisherman, being settled in Bridgewater for as long a time as he could tell a cod from ...a haddock. Generous as it seems, this condition would empty most country pulpits forthwith, for it is long since the fishers of men were fishermen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This was the most completely maritime town that we were ever in. It was merely a good harbor, surrounded by land, dry if not firm,...--an inhabited beach, whereon fishermen cured and stored their fish, without any back country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature t...hemselves, are often in a more favorable mood for observing her, in the intervals of their pursuits, than philosophers or poets even, who approach her with expectation. She is not afraid to exhibit herself to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pericles. He asks of you that never used to beg. 1st Fisherman. No, friend, cannot you beg? Here's them in our country of Gre...ece gets more with begging than we can do with working.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »