“FRESH FISH FOR THE COOK TO SPOIL”
Reading edition
In the warmer latitudes there were always fish playing about the ship’s bows: bonita, barracouta, dolphins and porpoises——
To vary the weary round of salt “horse” it was no trick at all for one of the boatsteerers to take himself into the martingale stays and bring up a fish that would arouse the envy of any landlubber angler.
