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my canoe and we were struggling together in 

 the water, he worked like mad with his plates, 

 and rescued me when he had time. There isn't 

 any real danger in clinging to the flipper of a 

 thousand-pound manatee while he slings you 

 around in the water, but it makes an unusual 

 picture, quite irresistible to a magazine man. 



The first editor who saw the illustrations 

 wanted them and then the question of copy was 

 put up to us. Right then our magazine mistakes 

 began. We had a lot of material and we tried 

 to get it all into the first article. The result was 

 neither fish, flesh, nor fowl. The whole maga- 

 zine office was turned loose upon it. It was 

 carved horizontally, diagonally, and vertically. 

 Finally the office boy ran it through a meat- 

 chopper. I gave up reading the proof of the 

 thing when I came to where a flying devil-fish 

 was paddling a canoe among a herd of frigate 

 pelicans and a broken- winged crocodile thrust 

 his saw through the bottom of the craft while 

 the camera man shouted, "More action, please!" 



We wasted a lot of material in those days but 



