[Illustration: MANDY AND BUB BY THE NETS. [See page 450.]]




ST. NICHOLAS.

VOL. V.
MAY, 1878.
No. 7.


[Copyright, 1878, by Scribner & Co.]




HOW MANDY WENT ROWING WITH THE "CAP'N."

BY MARY HALLOCK FOOTE.


It was the month of May--the season of fresh shad and apple-blossoms on
the Hudson River. "Bub" and "Mandy" Lewis knew more about the shad than
they did about the apple-blossoms, for their father was a fisherman,
and they lived in a little house built on a steep bank between the road
above and the river below. Sometimes, on cool, damp spring evenings,
the scent of the orchards came down to them from the hills above, but
the smell of shad was much stronger and nearer.