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admiration. Even though the leaping tuna, the jewfish and 

 the Swordfish are big and powerful, the club has elected to 

 raise the standard of sportsmanship by making captures more 

 difficult than ever before. A higher degree of skill and nerve 

 and judgment is required in the angler who would make good 

 on a big fish; and, incidentally, the fish has about double 

 "the show" that it had fifteen years ago. 



That is sportsmanship ! 



But how is it with the men who handle the shotgun and 

 the rifle? 



By them the Tuna Club's high-class principle has been 

 exactly reversed ! In the making of fishing-rods, commercial- 

 ism plays small part; but in about forty cases out of every 

 fifty the making of guns is solely a matter of dollars and 

 profits. The range and general deadliness of sporting fire- 

 arms have been increased to the limit of human ingenuity, 

 and to-day the most popular shotguns in America are those 

 that are most unfair to the game — the "automatic" and the 

 'pump-gun." However, a very few sportsmen are beginning 

 to use shotguns of extra small calibre; and this is true sports- 

 manship. 



The Sucking Fish, or Remora, 1 is a high-class parasite, 



who does much of his travelling at the expense of sharks who 

 would eat him if they could. In one of her odd freaks of 

 merry-making Nature fashioned on this creature's head a 

 large, flat disk, set crosswise with rows of delicate spines, all 

 pointing backward. It is really a peculiar development of 



1 Re-mo'ra bra-chyp'ter-a. Sec figure on page 309, of an individual attached to 

 a mackerel shark 



