see everything animate and inanimate 

 in the water within his hunting circle. 

 He could thus, accurately, locate his 

 prey, while we could not see deeply into 

 the water and were always guessing. 

 We might make a hundred casts in as 

 many places, where no bass had been 

 for hours. So I reeled in my line, laid 

 the rod down in the boat and gave my 

 entire attention to watching the opera- 

 tions of the fish hawk. 



For about ten minutes the aeroplane 

 fisher continued to rotate overhead; 

 then I observed that the circles were 

 smaller in diameter, and were descend- 

 ing in corkscrew curves, until from a 

 height of about fifty feet the body of the 

 bird shot straight down and struck the 

 water about twenty-five yards from our 

 boat with the blow of a spile driver's 

 hammer, throwing a fountain of spray 

 high into the air. For a few seconds 

 nothing was visible but troubled waters ; 



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