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the thermometer like Old Faithful geyser. He took 

 the line as though he had an afternoon tea date at 

 the North Pole; then he came back strong, broke 

 water and decided to dine with the penguins around 

 Punta Arenas before 6 P. M. However, with the 

 aid of my own will power and some pressure brought 

 to bear in high political places, the old u he-wop " 

 decided to travel toward the center of the lake, away 

 from the windfalls and weeds. 



" For twenty minutes the bass rehearsed every- 

 thing he had learned in his own lifetime and the 

 things he had learned from his father and mother 

 before him. He cut under the boat and broke water 

 twenty feet on the other side. He slipped to the 

 bottom to rub the curious little minnow with the sting 

 from his mouth. He backed away, doubled on his 

 tracks like a red fox, flopped a foot out of water into 

 the snow-swirl; and finally, after one of the gamest 

 fights I have ever had or seen, gave up the battle 

 and died like a true hero fighting to the death. 

 Softly I reeled him in, and, as we had no landing 

 net, my brother reached into the water and lifted him 

 out. For a moment we looked at him quivering 

 at the bottom of the boat, and instinctively we raised 

 our hats to one of the gamest fish in the world." 



ARTIFICIAL WINS OVER LIVE BAIT 



Gerald C. Burd of Brooklyn while fishing in Lake 

 Court O'rielles, Wisconsin, on a hot July day landed 



