These pleadings, and the counter pleadings, being duly heard, the very learned judge in set terms decided, to wit, --That as for the boat, he awarded it to the plaintiffs, because they had merely abandoned it to save their lives; but that with regard to the controverted whale, harpoons, and line, they belonged to the defendants; the whale, because it was a Loose-Fish at the time of the final capture; and the harpoons and line because when the
fish made off with them, it (the
fish) acquired a property in those articles; and hence anybody who afterwards took the
fish had a right to them.
All the South Sea Islanders are passionately fond of
fish; but none of them can be more so than the inhabitants of Typee.
When the fisherman went home to his wife in the pigsty, he told her how he had caught a great
fish, and how it had told him it was an enchanted prince, and how, on hearing it speak, he had let it go again.
There is no spot in the world where you can get more fishing, or where you can
fish for a longer period.
To his great surprise, he found himself in a huge net, amid a crowd of
fish of all kinds and sizes, who were fighting and struggling desperately to free themselves.
--My happiness itself do I throw out into all places far and wide 'twixt orient, noontide, and occident, to see if many human
fish will not learn to hug and tug at my happiness;--
Because of the wall and the guards and the watchers, there was more time to hunt and
fish and pick roots and berries; there was more food, and better food, and no one went hungry.
In the old days, the
fish patrol had attempted his capture many disastrous times and had finally given it over, so that when the word was out that he was coming to Benicia, I was most anxious to see him.
Let me confess, then, that I assumed the character of a fastidious angler, and managed to be a week in discovering the right place to
fish in--always, it is unnecessary to say, under Alicia's guidance.
"Manuel hain't room fer another
fish. Low ez a lily-pad in still water, ain't he?"
And here we have old Hook pretending to produce his own
fish when he couldn't produce his own
fish knives or
fish forks to eat it with.
The
fish was fat and round, and its scales glistened like beautifully cut jewels set close together; but there was no time to examine it closely, for Eureka made a jump and caught it between her claws, and in a few moments it had entirely disappeared.