It happened to be a middy that she had gone crabbing in, so it was not overly pleasant.
Harvie and Shorty had gone to the camp for luncheon and to go crabbing with the boys, which was rather a relief, as Dum declared we could not have boys all the time without getting bored.
I lost a dandy big one when I was crabbing on the dock last week.
This is the first time we have been crabbing in the bay.
For this reason all crabbing boats are provided with anchors.
When you go crabbing you can have almost as many lines out as you can watch--it is not like catching fish with a hook.
Those of you who have been crabbing know that the boat must be kept still, or nearly so, while the crab fishing goes on.
I wentcrabbing with my nurse one day, and we caught a peach-basketful of crabs.
Stella's success in her first essay at crabbingis marvellous.
You look, little one, as if you wanted to go crabbing too," says the captain to Stella, noting the longing looks which the girl is casting after the boy.
Hanging balanced at angle of forty-five degrees, I started slowly crabbing back to the boat.
A grizzled old codger, across whose fish-lines I came crabbing in, seemed more pleased than put out over the diversion.
Crabbing up stream with supplies was one thing, floundering down with a shattered human cargo of that kind, quite another.
Of course you can catch them at other times, but thecrabbing is best when the tide is coming in.
They played in the sand, went crabbing and fishing, wading and swimming.
One was the large one in which they had gone crabbing a few days before, and the other was the small one in which Margy and Mun Bun had gone drifting away.
Come, we'll get ready to go crabbing this afternoon and that will keep you so busy you won't want to talk.
Accordingly the small pronged anchor, that held the boat from drifting while the crabbing was going on, was hauled up, and put in the bow.
They went swimming, crabbing and boating, but they never again went so near the inlet that they were in danger of being carried out to sea.
Crabbing was one of their chief delights, and many a basketfull of the clashing, clawing creatures they pulled out of the waters of Lighthouse Cove.
Yes, my screams broke up that well-arranged plan to delude Mr. Burke from my side, and it broke up the crabbing party too.
Your brother Ford is on the bay, crabbingwith our Dabney," remarked Samantha, as the widow returned.
Melissa may be outside or even out in a boat herself, crabbing or fishing.
Emma Tash changed back into her regular dress, put the crabbing disguise into her bag and, thanking them all for the help, started for the village, saying she would take a train back to New York.
Emma Tash certainly was a very different person in her crabbing disguise.
Emma Tash just wouldn't do that a second time," said Terry, recalling the crabbing party.
No sooner had the crabbing plan of approaching the Clayton shack been decided upon than she lifted up a small black bag which she had set beside her chair.
Now, if we pretend to be crabbing we can gradually work our way toward it without exciting suspicion.
Emma Tash produced from a pocket in her crabbing dress a binocular, and as Terry threw the little anchor over, Emma Tash focused the glass on the Clayton shack.
The throng of children ran over the grassy path from the shop; and they all began to clamour that Polly and Janey should come up Saturday and gocrabbing with them.
So intent were the girls on their crabbing game they had not noticed the other craft drifting about them.
We will go up stream, the other way," conceded Louise, delighted at the prospect of their crabbing party.
Come on, here is where we hire our boat, and get our crabbing outfit.
That being the case I suppose I must make the crabbing party unanimous," capitulated Cleo, "although I should not enjoy a spill out here so near the inlet.
Grace and Margaret took the oars, and soon the crabbingparty was gliding out among the few vacationists who were taking advantage of the pleasant afternoon on the water.
Brady had gone crabbing with Marsden, so Flint could not delegate the duty to him, as he had intended.
From the crabbing machine the pieces are wound on to a perforated shell or steel cylinder which is closed at one end.
The gentle art of crabbing involves the carrying of a long-handled net and a huge basket, and a stop at the butcher's to purchase unsavory lumps of meat for bait.
Beamingly she fell into the plans for the crabbing party that afternoon.
No party of boys lacking funds had to forego crabbing expeditions as long as Toby had spare dories not in demand for pay.
There, he knew, was a small dock, on the widened end of which stood a small, two-room shack used by a boatman who rented his small dories for crabbing excursions into the channels of the swamp.
I went crabbingwith Bert Holliday this morning," said Bobby.
I tell you, once and for all, I won't have you always crabbing one of my sisters and her household.
Only it was a pity that Gerrit always insisted on crabbingand poking fun at the Van Naghels and their friends.
Yes, you're always crabbing Adolphine, her husband, her house, her children.
