Favorite Fish and Fishing 



him go If I have to go overboard with him. 

 I am bound to land him in Washington if 

 I have to go by water." 



A Wild Dance I tried sitting on him then, but he would 



not be sat down upon, and up he came 

 again. Again we had it, dancing about in 

 the slippery boat on a raging sea. It was 

 a medley of waltz, two-step, polka, and 

 galop, with a slimy silver king for a part- 

 ner. He seemed to weigh a ton and to be 

 ten feet tall. At last I got him down again 

 and replaced one of the thwarts above him. 

 I got out my knife, lifted up his immense 

 gill cover and severed his heart. 



The men were scooping out their fare of 

 mullet, red-fish, and sea-trout. The large 

 shark, a number of smaller ones, plenty of 

 rays, and hundreds of other fish were still 

 in the trap. Seeing a fine whip ray some 

 four feet across and as spotted as a leop- 

 ard, I shouted, " Captain, I want that 

 whipparee ! " 



A Whipparee They soon gaffed him and deposited him 



on top of my tarpon. Then observing a 

 huge sting ray, larger than the whip ray, I 

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