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Mouth Maximum Weight and Length Difficulty of 

 obtaining Records Two Different Types Natural Food 

 An Autopsy The Tarpon's Character Its Stupidity 

 Boldness when Hooked Its Efforts to Escape 

 Formula for obtaining Weight from Measurements 

 Waste of these Grand Fish Its Geographical Distribu- 

 tion Little Known of its Breeding and Migration 

 Curious Occurrence in Landlocked Waters in the West 

 Indies A Chance for American Ichthyologists The 

 Tackle Rod Reel Line Sinkers A Foolish 

 Practice Hook and Wire Snell Rod Rest Playing the 

 Fish to the Gaff Bad Gaffing by the Guides The Bait 

 Method of Cutting Cost of Bait Bait used in Texas 

 Originality unprofitable Stale Bait Other Baits used 

 in the Caribbean The Methods of Fishing Pass-fishing 

 Description of a Day in Boca Grande Luck all round 

 The First Strike "Make Him Jump !" A Great 

 Fight A Fish on the Beach The Colonel's Big Fish- 

 Adventure with a Huge Shark Towed for over Two 

 Hours End of the Episode Bad Fishing with a 

 Borrowed Tip A Lively Afternoon Success of Ladies 

 Mr Vom Hofe and His Turtle A Kingfish to the 

 Rescue Reckless Slaughter Useppa Record for 1906 

 General Principles Stoutness of Tarpon Tackle 

 Adventure with a Foul-hooked Tarpon A Fish following 

 the Bait to the Boat Luck versus Experience The Law 

 of Compensation Record Luck of Lord Desborough 

 Where Skill comes in Ways in which a Tarpon may be 

 Lost Accidents in Tarpon-fishing Still-fishing Letter 

 trom a Sportsman at Fort Myers Other Fishing 

 "Vermin" of the Pass Fishes Caught round Useppa 

 " Trout" Catfish Sheepshead Burrowing Animals 

 Characteristic of Florida An Alligator Hunt A Fight 

 with Vegetation Digging out an Alligator The 

 Occupant away from Home A Small Specimen 

 Secured Natural History Notes Alligators and 

 Crocodiles of Florida The Mocking-Bird Mimicry of 

 Animal Voices "Whip-poor-will" Herons and Egrets 

 Florida suited as a Home of Birds Bird Protection a 

 Farce Loggerhead Turtles Bears and Turtles' Eggs 

 Shells of the Pass Snakes Catching a Rattlesnake 

 in a Butterfly - net Noxious Insects Mosquitoes 

 Good-bye to Florida Tampa to Key West Absence 

 of Beauty in the Latter Last Memories of Florida 83- 1 79 



