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threw over a herring, for it scarcely struck 

 the water before it was grabbed. Then I 

 threw over the baited hook, and he seized 

 it just as fiercely ; and this second fellow was 

 fast, rushing and jumping even more fiercely 

 than the first. He began towing us directly 

 away from the boats for some time. To make 

 his speed less rapid, we crossed our oars and 

 held back water, which acted like a drag. 

 Suddenly, like his predecessor, he turned at 

 right angles to the current he had been 

 following, and led us in that direction fully 

 ten minutes, then took a range leading 

 directly for the boats. Up to this time we 

 did not feel at all anxious apart from the 

 long row that seemed before us when he was 

 leading off shore. Now, however, there 

 appeared to be evil in his eye, and if he 

 should take us up there this time, the results 

 might be much more serious than before, for 

 the boats were all deeply loaded. 



What was to be done? While we were 

 trying to plan some feasible way out of it, and 

 at the same time save our fish, he made a leap 

 out, and fell very heavily, thus showing he 

 was weakening, and from that time we found 



