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ry, and it is impossible to go far any direction without seeing a lack coil sluggishly issuing from a oft into a cart, which receives it on he street below, this also being a net. Within the loft are many tarry-finered Penelopes mending old nets and eshing new ones, and men in canas attire who are soaking their nets oil and pitch to make them stronger. The nets are hung over fences, hauled p on poles, and drawn out in neat quares wherever there is an unincum

Harper's magazine

Making of America Project

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