I never hav been codfishing miself, but think I should like it better than fishing for frogs.
I think i could ketch frogs well enuff, but i should insist upon their taking themselfs off from the hook.
I had rather take a boss bumble bee in mi hand than a live frog, not bekause I am afraid the frog would bite, but i am afraid ov their kicking.
Sum people ain’t afraid to take ennything with their hands, that they can reach, not even an eel, but if I should ever git caught by an eel, if i couldn’t settle with him, right off, by giving him the hook and line, i would throw the pole into the bargin and put for home.
The codfish iz sed tew be an aristokrat, and to keep aloof from the other fish of hiz size in the sea, and claims tew be a relation of the whales, but this looks to me rather fishy.
I hav noticed that the codfish alwus haz a stiff upper lip, but I think this iz more owing tew the bone that iz in him than it iz tew his blood.
THE MACKREL.
The mackrel iz a game fish. They ought tew be well edukated, for they are always in schools.
They are very eazy to bite, and are caught with a piece ov old red flannel pettycoat tied onto a hook.
They ain’t the only kind ov fish that are caught by the same kind of bait.