Favorite Fish and Fishing 



A Blue Norther rest of the fish. Strange to say, the large 

 shark, at least ten feet long, was completely 

 smothered under the mass of fish and had 

 to be gaffed and hauled overboard by main 

 strength. It was now dark, with two miles 

 to row in the teeth of a blue norther. We 

 arrived at the hotel pier nearly frozen. 



" Captain Faulkner," said I, " it's ten 

 dollars in your inside pocket if you get my 

 fish up to Hunter's Point by morning to 

 meet the Tampa fish steamer." 



The wind lulled somewhat at midnight, 

 when they started in the sailboat; but it 

 took them until daylight to beat up the 

 fifteen miles to Hunter's Point, where my 

 specimens were put on ice with the market 

 fish and taken on the steamer Mistletoe to 

 Tampa. 



Sorry Plight of The next day but one I went to Faulk- 

 e Capta n e r '$ shanty, by previous appointment, for 



another trip to the pound net. I found the 

 Captain sitting by his stove in a sorry 

 plight. His head and face were swathed 

 in bandages and badly swollen. 



" Why, Captain! " I exclaimed, " what's 

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