FEINBERG/WHITMAN
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NOTES and NOTEBOOKS

NOTES - Literary

After 1855

Fish & Fishing

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After 1855 Notes on Fish and Fishing. A.MS. (1p. 16 x 25 cm.)

Written in pencil on one side of a sheet of green paper, similar
to the used in the corner of the first edition of Leaves of Grass, this is a
list of about 45 oysters, clams, crab, eel, and other fish and
sea creatures. Comments on 6 fish, such as, on the silverside:
'translucent--diminutive--myriads of them--the little things
that dart up creeks and along the edges of the sea'. On flying
fish: 'otherwise pig-fish from a strong grunt or bark it makes
when first caught, or hauled in--said to be only a summer
visitor--is small sized good to eat'. Longest note is on the
squetaug, or weak fish.

oysters
clams
crab
eel
mussel
scallop
horse=foot
lobster
string=ray
[fiddler]
fidler
mossbonker (spotted)
yellow mackerel
squetaug (or
weak fish 
is blotched 
beautifully with 
white & silver 
& blue
when first 
caught is 
of a rich 
trout of purplish 
red-soon fades 
move about in 
shoals, generally
swimming near the 
surface
-- they take the bait 
at a voracious snap --
seldom condescending 
to nibble
-- seems to love in summer 
in slight infusion 
of fresh water -- as it 
concentrates about the 
mouths of rivers
Sea=pike -- (length 8 inches 
appears in August 
back dark green sides silver white 
belly dull white 
fins subtransparent pricked with green

The olive=green fishes and the 
gray and brown blotched fishes
blue=fish
white=fish
black=fish viz tautog
perch
trout -- brook trout
salmon
bass
king=fish
porgee
(hake) really king fish so 
known in New York
halibut 
shad
horse=mackerel
dog fish
stickle back
herring 
drumm
flat=fish
sun fish
flying fish--otherwise pig=fish
from a strong grunt 
or bark it makes
when first caught,
or hauled in
--said to be only a
summer visitor
--is small sized
good to eat

wind=fish
cat fish
chub
chubsucker
mudfish
shark
swordfish
whale
?mullet
silverside
translucent --diminutive
-myriads 
of them - -the 
little things that 
dart up creeks 
and along the edges
 of the sea

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