Favorite Fish and Fishing 



" No," I rejoined, " not so much. He 

 might weigh your figure In a few months 

 with plenty of food and warmer water, but 

 his present weight Is one hundred and 

 twenty-five pounds." 



We put him on the scale, which he tipped 

 at one hundred and twenty-four pounds. 

 A Fair The hundreds of thousands of visitors to 



the World's Fair who admired the grace- 

 ful proportions of this tarpon, In the gela- 

 tin cast, painted In life colors, and hung In 

 the Government building, little Imagined 

 the hardships and excitement attending Its 

 capture, or the subsequent swelled face of 

 poor Captain Faulkner. 



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