In article >, ASmith1946
> wrote:

> >
> >I have not seen it in a primary source. My memory of the account I did
> >see was that it was a contract in which A was borrowing B's indentured
> >servants, and agreeing not to feed them lobster more than X days a week.
> >
> >--
>
>
> I've heard a similar story for sturgeon, i.e. loggers signing contracts for
> eating sturgeon only three days a week. Don't recall seeing a primary source
> on
> this story either...
>
> Andy Smith
I'm afraid that this exists as a tale in the Uk, too, with both salmon
and oysters.

Lazarus

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