SCHNAPPER AND BLACK BREAM 129 



One Saturday in June, or rather as Saturday 

 was giving place to its successor, for the great 

 clock tower of the Sydney Post Office boomed 

 forth the midnight hour, six or eight members of 

 the Kuriwa Schnapper Club assembled at Circular 

 Quay and filed along a gangway aboard a little 

 tugboat, each greeting the coloured skipper as 



THE SCHNAPPER 



he reached the deck. That son of Ham was a 

 favourite with all hands and a wonderful fisher- 

 man to boot, usually catching two fish on his line 

 to one taken on any other. A little delay was 

 caused by two members arriving late. Both of 

 them held positions in the Land's Office, but 

 Government business could hardly be held respon- 

 sible for their want of punctuality at that hour. 



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