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[Illustration: MANDY AND BUB BY THE NETS. [See page 450.]]
ST. NICHOLAS.
VOL. V.
MAY, 1878.
No. 7.
[Copyright, 1878, by Scribner & Co.]
HOW MANDY WENT ROWING WITH THE "CAP'N."
BY MARY HALLOCK FOOTE.
It was the month of May--the season of fresh shad and apple-blossoms on
the Hudson River. "Bub" and "Mandy" Lewis knew more about the shad than
they did about the apple-blossoms, for their father was a fisherman,
and they lived in a little house built on a steep bank between the road
above and the river below. Sometimes, on cool, damp spring evenings,
the scent of the orchards came down to them from the hills above, but
the smell of shad was much stronger and nearer.
Just in front of the house was an old wharf, where fishing-boats were
moored, and nets spread for drying or mending. One morning, Bub and
Mandy were sitting on the log which guards the edge of the wharf,
watching their father and brother Jeff getting ready to spread the nets
for next night's "haul." Jeff was busy with the buoy lines and sinkers,
while the father bailed out the boat with an old tin pan.
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