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chumps we were not to have purchased the A Missed 

 land on each side of the creek? " 



" Yes, Captain ' Bob ' ; and I met a gen- 

 tleman on the train yesterday who was the 

 party who bought it. He was on his way 

 to Washington to have Boca Grande made 

 a port of entry for shipping the stuff to 

 Europe. He also informed me that he had 

 sold a third of his interest for sixty thou- 

 sand dollars! " 



" Well, I'm d lighted to hear it. Just 

 our luck!" 



"Yes, Captain Bob," I returned, "it 

 was another missed opportunity. But we 

 were not looking for phosphate rock or 

 goldfish; we were simply looking for ripe 

 mullet. It all depends on the viewpoint." 



I was once cruising in Barnes Sound and Spearing the 

 had for a pilot Captain Bill Pent, of Key 

 West, who was fully acquainted with the 

 numerous shoals and mud flats of those 

 shallow waters. Our experiences, as might 

 be imagined, were both novel and varied. 

 After seining the coves and shores for speci- 

 mens of the smaller fishes, we would give 



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