BIG GAME FISHES OF CALIFORNIA 



we made the fight of our lives in trying to turn the fish, and, 

 though we took it by strategy, we came out of the contest worn 

 down to the proverbial frazzle, and I shall never forget the re- 

 mark of my patient boatman, as we stood looking at the big 

 fish, and I had expressed my opinion that it was great sport. 



" Some people have mighty queer ideas about sport. Boss. 

 I calls dat hard work, and some day, Boss, yuse gwine to get 

 capsized, and ole sodfish's friend Mister Shark gwine to get 

 you shore." Bill was a good boatman, but a poor prophet. 



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