That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 19, 2017

The oldest trick to make a lost cat return home.

“When Lutefisk is outlawed, only Outlaws will have Lutefisk!”

“All of those men out on the boat yesterday, and this is the best they could catch?”

Hey! It’s the fish you’re smelling …not me!!

The Herring Industry’s attempt at their version of Betty Crocker failed miserably.

“Wanta see my sword fish?”

Seagulls are circling the house.

“I have nice chestnuts too.”

2 URLs (copy each as one line):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elisabeth_Alida_Haane_Marktfrau_1840.jpg

(best viewed by Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/ElisabethHaanen

has Dutch info about the artist (again, Chrome can automatically translate, though it may overtranslate her last name). Although she only lived to age 35, it doesn’t say why.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1754 (July 19, 2017) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.

Not to mention my tuna!

“She dwelt among untrodden ways/ among those ways she dwelt/she made her living selling fish – and so she smellt of smelt…”

I love fish tacos.

It’s all a red herring ! We know she’s just trying to misdirect us, from looking at her chestnuts.

Dang right, it’s better than yours.

That’s “earring” not “herring”.

To zoom in on the picture: see my comment of yesterday. (if you can make head or tail of it…)

Cockles and muscles, alive, alive oh!

(sic)

She shows the boys her pickled herring. They show her their pickles.

The Girl With a Pearly Herring

“I’d teach you, but I’d have to charge.” (I actually love the song this is based on…My Milkshake…"