Another account stated that it was Sir Matthew Bray who had stabbed Mrs Burnett, and that he had been seized and put in prison for the deed, while Lady Drelincourt had gone mad from love and misery, and had been found by Fisherman Dick and a couple of friends six miles inland, lost on the Downs, drenched with rain, and raving so that she had had to be held down in the cart that the fishermen had been using to carry mackerel.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
Everybody smiled at the word mackerel, and thought of French brandy for some reason or another.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
Examples: salmon, herring, mackerel.
"Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management"
Ministry of Education