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power. The one upon the rocks was beaten down, 

 and only by falling in a crevice and holding fast 

 with all his strength was saved from being carried 

 off. When the wave passed he struggled to his 

 feet and looked down into the deep water for his 

 friend. The line was broken, and man and fish 

 were swept away together. 



Danger never deterred a sportsman, but rather 

 seems to enhance his enjoyment ; and there is just 

 sufficient risk and enough cold water to make fishing 

 from the rocks a pleasurable excitement. The 

 fiercer the storm and the wilder the water the bet- 

 ter the fishing, and the peril is more than counter- 

 balanced by the sport. Occasionally, at these times, 

 a fisherman will be lost, but more frequently he will 

 capture the gigantic fish that has been the ambition 

 of his life ; and if he does perish it is in a good 

 cause, and he has the sympathies of all his ardent 

 brothers of the angle. 



Bass, like other fish, do not feed in a thunder 

 shower, but during the latter part of a north-easterly 

 or south-easterly storm, and immediately after when 

 the wind has hauled to the westward and made 

 casting easier, they are taken in the greatest quan- 

 tities. In fact it is hardly worth while to fish for 

 them at any other time. 



At Point Judith there are some bay snipe and 

 plover after the fifteenth of August, and the quail 

 shooting which begins on the twentieth of Septem- 

 ber is quite good. Blue-fish or horse-mackerel are 

 not pursued for sport, but rather pursue the angler, 



