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HOOKED AT LAST. 



is not well with any person whose foot happens to be 

 accidentally on the coil of the rope, for, when the hook 

 is first fixed, it spins out " like the log-line of a ship 

 going twelve knots." 



The suddenness of the jerk with which the monster is 

 brought up when it has reached the length of its tether 

 often turns it quite over on the surface of the water. 



CAPTURE OF A SHARK. 



Then commence the loud cheers, so long, and with so much 

 difficulty suppressed ! A steady pull is insufficient to carry 

 away the line, but it sometimes happens that the violent 

 struggles of the shark, when too speedily drawn up, snap 

 either the rope or the hook, and so it gets off, to digest 

 the remainder as best it can. Accordingly, it is con- 



