The Lobster

When a lobster shakes hands with you, you always know when it takes ïold, and are exceedingly pleased when t gets done. They have small featïres and lay no claim to good looks. When they locomote they reseuible a mail boy shuflling olï in nis father's )oots. ïhey are backward, very. They even go ahead backward. They occasionally have a row like people, and in the melee lose a member. but ïave the faculty of growing out another. The process is patented both n this country and Europe, which accounts for its not coming into general use with human lofesters, so to speak. A lobster never comes on shore uness he is carried by force. They are afflicted with but one disease, and that is boils. There is more real excitement in harpooning a whale or inhavng the measles than their is catching lobsters. The fisherman provides himself with a small hencoop and places in it for enticers several dead flsh. He then rows his boat to the lobster ground (which is water) and sinks his coop to the bottom, and anchors it to a small buoy (one f rom eight to ten years will do,) and then goes home. When he feels like it again - say in the course of a week, or so - he goes back and pulls his poultryhousa, and if he has good success he will find the game inside the coop. As an article of f ood the real goodness of the lobster is in the pith. Very few persons relish the skin, and physicians say it is hard to digest. We theref ore take the lobster and boil it until it is ready to eat. Nothing is aetter for eolic than boiled lobster. It will bring on a case when cucumbers have failed. For a frauden case we advise them crumbled in miik. Eaten at aight time, and in proper quap tifies, lobster stands second to do fruit known.-