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'I am sure,' said Uriah, writhing himself into the silence like a Conger-eel, 'that this is a subject full of unpleasantness to everybody.

At length, we luckily thought on a method of curing the conger-eel, by splitting it, and taking out the [Page 178] back-bone, then dipping it in salt-water, and afterwards hanging it up to dry in a great smoke.

The new boat being sent to try her fortune, returned at night, and brought in a great parcel of fish of several sorts, amongst which were 200 conger-eels.

The next spring-tide we found means to launch her, which fell out on the 5th of October, by which time we had saved about 2300 conger-eels, weighing, one with another, about one pound each, and made about 60 gallons of seals oil to fry them in.

The gentlemen now purchased a great quantity of cray-fish, muscles and conger-eels.

Meanwhile, he regretted his incapacity to give them a specimen of the aliens, or fish meals of the ancients, such as the jus diabaton, the conger-eel, which, in Galen's opinion, is hard of digestion; the cornuta, or gurnard, described by Pliny in his Natural History, who says, the horns of many of them were a foot and a half in length, the mullet and lamprey, that were in the highest estimation of old, of which last Julius Caesar borrowed six thousand for one triumphal supper.

Several of them came off to the Ship, and being about us some time they ventur'd alongside and sold us some Lobsters, Muscels, and 2 Conger Eales.

I should here inform my readers that the cottage of Tim Carthy was situated in the deep valley which runs inland from the strand at Monkstown, a pretty little bathing village, that forms an interesting object on the banks of the romantic Lee, near the "beautiful city" of Cork. "I never heard such a jearful storm since the night Mahoon, the ould giant, who lives in the cave under the _Giants Stairs_, sunk the three West Ingee-men that lay at anchor near the rocks," observed Mrs. Carthy. "It's Felix can tell us, if he plazes, a quare story about that same Mahoon," added Tim, addressing himself to the young man. "You're right there, anyhow, Tim," replied Felix; "and as my pipe is just out, I'll give you the whole truth of the story as if I was after kissing the book upon it. "You must know, then, it was one fine morning near Midsummer, about five years ago, that I got up very airly to go down to the beach and launch my boat, for I meant to try my luck at fishing for conger eels under the Giant's Stairs.

At first I thought it was a big conger, but then I knew that no fish would hang so dead upon my hand, so I hauled in with fear and thrembling, for I was afeard every minnit my line or my hook would break, and at last I got my prize to the top of the water, and then safe upon the gunnel of the boat;--and what do you think it was?" "In troth, Felix, sorra one of us knows." "Well, then, it was nothing else but a little dirty black oak box, hooped round with iron, and covered with say-weed and barnacles, as if it had lain a long time in the water. 'Oh, ho!' says myself, 'it's in rale good luck I am this beautiful morning.

A dizziness came over my senses, I fell upon the ground in a dead faint, and when I came to myself--I found myself all alone in my boat, with three tundhering big conger-eels fast upon my lines.

Never heard of uglifying!' it exclaimed. 'You know what to beautify is, I suppose?' 'Yes,' said Alice doubtfully: 'it means-to-make-anything-prettier.' 'Well, then,' the Gryphon went on, 'if you don't know what to uglify is, you ARE a simpleton.' Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any more questions about it, so she turned to the Mock Turtle, and said 'What else had you to learn?' 'Well, there was Mystery,' the Mock Turtle replied, counting off the subjects on his flappers, '-Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography: then Drawling-the Drawling-master was an old conger-eel, that used to come once a week: HE taught us Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.' 'What was THAT like?' said Alice. 'Well, I can't show it you myself,' the Mock Turtle said: 'I'm too stiff.

And there were little shells in it. 'Fancy it having been wet sea here once, all sloppy and shiny,' said Jane, 'with fishes and conger-eels and coral and mermaids.' 'And masts of ships and wrecked Spanish treasure.

For example, the arms of the Congleton in Cheshire contain a conger eel, a lion (in Latin, 'leo') and a tun (another word for a Barrel (storage)).

This method of locomotion may have been similar to that used by the conger eel or sea snakes today.

Annie Besant became leader of the society based in Adyar, Karnataka, India, while William Quan Judge split off the American Section of the Theosophical Society in New York which later moved to Point Loma, California, Covina, and Pasadena, California under a series of leaders: Katherine Tingley, Gottfried de Purucker, Colonel Arthur L. Conger, James A. Long, Grace F. Knoche, and in March 2006 Randell C. Grubb.

The original Parachute Club band consisted of Lorraine Segato on vocals and guitar, Lauri Conger on Keyboard instruments and vocals, Billy Bryans on drums, Margo Davidson on saxophone and vocals,Davidson at the time was one of very few female saxophonists playing professionally, predating such artists as Candy Dulfer and Katja Rieckermann, the latter being a solo artist and member of Rod Stewart band.

On March 16, 2009 Schulman was awarded the Samuel Edward Konkin III Memorial Chauntecleer by the Karl Hess Club, only the third time the award had been granted, with the previous recipients being Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Wally Conger.

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