I wasn't going to set him up in business with my brains and experience, and so, directly, he says to me, 'Powell, I'm now engaged in transplanting some desiccated codfish into the Schuylkill; but it scatters too much when it gets into the water.

Now, how would it do to breed the ordinary codfish with a sausage-chopper or a mince-meat machine?
Do you think a desiccated codfish would rise to a fly, or wouldn't you have to fish for him with a colander ?' And so he kept reeling out a jackassery like that until directly he said, 'I'll tell you, professor, what this country needs is a fresh-water oyster.

Now, it has occurred to me that maybe the best variety to plant would be the ordinary fried oyster.

It seems to be popular, and it has the advantage of growing without a shell.
One of the other commissioners,' so this terrific blockhead said, 'insisted on trying the experiment with the oyster that produces tripe, so's to enable the people to catch tripe and oysters when they go a-fishing.

But for my part,' says he, 'I want either the fried oyster or the kind that grow in pie crust, like they have 'em at the restaurants.' Actually said that.
"Well, he driveled along for a while, talking the awfulest bosh; and pretty soon he asked me if I was fond of mock-turtle soup.