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described of pulling gradually in towards the beach was fortu- 

 nately adopted. The boatman jumped into the knee-deep water, 

 Mrs. Grimshaw scrambled after him, and waded ashore, and 

 it was then that the real tug-of-war seemed to commence. 

 The lady angler confessed that it was no joke running up the 

 shingly beach, as she did, with 130 lbs. of fish fighting for dear 

 life at the other end of the line. The battle is most vividly 

 described in the Badminton Magazine ; victory came, the fish 

 was duly gaffed, weighed at 125 lbs., and measured at 

 6 ft. 3 in. 



The next night her husband hooked a gigantic fish which 

 towed him quite into the Gulf, and he and his guide 

 disappeared for two hours, were searched for, and found 

 triumphant but exhausted after a fight with a tarpon weighing 

 175 lbs. Mr. and Mrs. Grimshaw were in great luck at that 

 time, for the same night the former caught a second tarpon 

 weighing 1 5 o lbs., and she herself another of 135 lbs. ; well 

 might she write, "they did look three beauties lying side by 

 side in the moonlight." 



Reference will be noticed in the Diary to Mr. Mygatt. 

 There is no better known name in these waters than his, and 

 it may be remembered that he also contributed two articles 



