Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1883 — ALL ABOUT THE BONY FISH SHAD. [ARTICLE]

ALL ABOUT THE BONY FISH SHAD.

In an old country shad would come in with a fete day. The world has not their equal for fineness, indescribable freshness like a water cress, and delicacy, yet with satisfying potency. One shad is the measure of the representative family. The father’s partiality is shown where he gives most of the roe. From birth to bones the shad’s epic is like a silver spirit; noiseless, translucent, unresisting, like the passage of the moon through the rivers and the sea. Migratory, but with childhood memories of locality, fruitful religiously, and even in the dream of young children and large gentle families, they seem like the spring lambs of the water, grazing the infinite fields l of sheen. What dangers they pass through, going and returning, the innocents in the time of Herod never had. Provided with nothing to make battle, with tiny teeth and miniature fins, they course the ocean like the silver galleon of old days beset by pirates but protected by the saints. Although the royal guest at feasts and poor men’s tables, they are, like all enduring nobility, peasant-born. The martyred menhaden is their cousin, the herring is their step-brother. To see them caught is like seeing angels fall; so peacefully, so slashingly; and in the butcher’s shamble they carry upon their delicate armor the light of skies. —New York Tribune. A lady writes: “Painful menstruation was the bane of my life. I dreaded those feelings of bearing down and that pain in the side and loins Of late I got in the habit of using Dr. Guysott’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla It goes right to the spot, gives me strength ana frees me from all pain. I think it is werth ics weight in gold.”

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