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tail ; then he dropped over both fish and hne, and 

 handed one end of the latter to me. It was well 

 that the other end of that line was made fast to 



the gimwale, for it burned 

 my fingers so, as the lit- 

 tle remora went sizzling 

 through the water, that I 

 could just as well have 

 held a live coal ! But my 

 assistant only chuckled a 

 little and baited another 

 line and sent it swimming 

 away into deep water. 

 Soon I felt my line taut- 

 ening, and Thomas told 

 me to pull it in. But I 

 might as well have tried 

 to pull in the side of a ship. 



" Gracious me ! " I said to the old man, " it must be 

 a whale or a big shark, for I can't move it a foot." 



.r-r-^/.-T^'Ki'^' 



A lisli for a fish-hook. 



