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HILL planned the whole business. When he 

 does a thing it is well done. He is a liberal, round, 

 and merry soul, who revels in providing fun for 

 others and a small share for himself. Incidentally, 

 he is a very skilful angler, a man who has fished for 

 many years, and who knows the ways of salmon, 

 trout, 'lunge, and black-bass as well as he knows 

 how to circumvent big sea-bass, "blues," weakfish, 

 or anything else worth bothering about in the 

 waters contiguous to Gotham. 



None of his guests was let into the secret till the 

 last moment, so I was rather astonished when he 

 began to warble over the 'phone. The burden of 

 his song was that a party should go down to the sea 

 in a ship of his providing in fact, be his guests 

 throughout the venture. 



When he had explained that Harry and "Cap" were 

 to be of the party, I at once agreed to go, for right 

 well I knew the ways of those choice spirits and the 



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