Word: mackerel
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...editorial in the Boston Advertiser says : "For instance, too much Spanish mackerel palls, gallons of toothsome terrapin congest spleens, and chicken liver en brochette in incessant doses have been known to discomfit the digestion of even a Harvard boy." The writer probably has dined at Memorial...
Sauntering amiably down the street, I encountered the customary group of village worthies busily holding down the mackerel kegs on the corner grocery porch...
...fellow. He had always managed to get ahead of me thus far. I was bound to pay him up sometime for the many jokes he had had at my expense. One day I heard him say he was going cod-fishing next morning at three o'clock, off Mackerel Point. Now was my chance. I'd set out at two, get on the ground first, and catch all the fish before he was up. Then how I would grin at him when he came along an hour afterward! With what coolness I would hold up my twenty-pounders...