114 'I'HE ENGLISH ANGLER IN FLORIDA x 



packing case, preferring it to the heavy, hard, expensive wooden affairs 

 like a coffin, stuffed with very heavy material, for which you have to 

 pay high rates to the railway company. My box cost nothing as extra 

 baggage, but came as personal luggage. The great point in skinning a 

 tarpon for future mounting is to have the grease removed from the 

 inside, otherwise a beautiful silver fish becomes quite black in time. 



