Favorite Fish and Fishing 



" No," I rejoined, " not so much. He 

 might weigh your figure in a few months 

 with plenty of food and warmer water, but 

 his present weight is one hundred and 

 twenty-five pounds." 



We put him on the scale, which he tipped 

 at one hundred and twenty-four pounds. 

 A Fair The hundreds of thousands of visitors to 



the World's Fair who admired the grace- 

 ful proportions of this tarpon, in the gela- 

 tin cast, painted in life colors, and hung in 

 the Government building, little imagined 

 the hardships and excitement attending its 

 capture, or the subsequent swelled face of 

 poor Captain Faulkner. 



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