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first folding them in its huge wings, then swallowing them 

 whole, the horns on the top of its head sticking up all the 

 while, in a devilish, fishy sort of glee. Fifty years ago the 

 fashionable sport among planters on the Carolina coast was 

 the capture of these dangerous fishes. 



Not many years ago the horse mackerel, as the tuna is 

 called on the Atlantic Coast, was common on the Massa- 

 chusetts coast. They were harpooned, and one day one 

 hundred, averaging one thousand pounds each, were taken in 

 Gloucester harbor amid the greatest excitement, owing to 

 their remarkable leaps over dories. In Southern California 

 waters a friend of the writer, a Mr. Berry of Pasadena, had 

 the unusual experience of looking up, and seeing a one- or 

 two-hundred-pound tuna, or horse mackerel, going over his 

 head. 



