Cape Cod, new & old . Chaptee XWELLFLEET AND CAPE FISHING THE popular food of any country offers asignificant index to that countrys tem-perament. Can we think of Germany withoutbeer, or England without roast beef, or Francewithout salads, or Cape Cod without fish? Theterm of Codfish Aristocracy — although itoriginated with the Dutch in 1347, the rivalparties being called hooks and codfish — isexcellently applicable here. It has frequentlybeen affirmed that a Briton would starve on thefish which sustains a good Cape-Codder. Cer-tain it is that, while in Roman Catholic coun-tries the fish suppl

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Cape Cod, new & old . Chaptee XWELLFLEET AND CAPE FISHING THE popular food of any country offers asignificant index to that countrys tem-perament. Can we think of Germany withoutbeer, or England without roast beef, or Francewithout salads, or Cape Cod without fish? Theterm of Codfish Aristocracy — although itoriginated with the Dutch in 1347, the rivalparties being called hooks and codfish — isexcellently applicable here. It has frequentlybeen affirmed that a Briton would starve on thefish which sustains a good Cape-Codder. Cer-tain it is that, while in Roman Catholic coun-tries the fish supply is sometimes exhausted