SHARKS AS FISHERMEN 



don't wish to rob you, for to-morrow is going to 

 be fair." 



But the captain guessed right and the Irene 

 stayed in the cove for two days while we beach- 

 combed and watched the big rollers chase over 

 the beach into the woods beyond. The gale in- 

 creased and the captain carried a cable ashore 

 and made it fast to a tree. 



"I haven't been in a hurricane on this coast. 

 Do you suppose we are going to have one?" I 

 asked him. 



"Can't have a hurricane with a high b'rometer, 

 and this isn't the season for 'em. This is a nor'- 

 wester, just as I told you it would be." 



"You tie to a tree for this. What do you do 

 in a hurricane?" 



"Do nothin'. The wind does it all. You just 

 lie low till it's over, and then if you are alive 

 and your boat hasn't been blown too far back 

 in the woods, you figure on how to get her afloat 

 again." 



After the nor'wester had subsided we an- 

 chored in the harbor just north of the Big Pass 

 and were welcomed by a band of graceful man- 

 o'-war hawks. Some of them soared two thou- 



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