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the game it leaps two or three feet into the air and 

 often repeats it ; a sixty-pound shark (my own record), 

 striped gray and black, like a tiger. He carries you up 

 and down the sands, and affords excellent sport for 

 those who like the more robust piscatorial indulgences. 

 You may see the still angler, on the inner bay, sit- 

 ting on the sands at Alamitos, while over on the sand- 

 dunes is his family listening to the music of the sea ; or 

 he is stationed at intervals on the outer beach down in 

 the direction of Newport, his rods thrust in the sands 

 and tagged with flags. Again you find him at the 

 great railroad pier at Port Los Angeles, or at Re- 

 dondo, where the deep sea cuts in, at times bringing 

 large fishes. 



