Guerre a' Mort! 



Mr. D. L. Holmes professor, yachtsman, fish- 

 erman, nature student, etc. declares that a bass* 

 dorsal fin is his "battle flag." My friend Zane 

 Grey thinks so too and so do others of lesser fame. 

 Our Professor's story is less tragic than it is comic. 

 I had a good laugh over it. Read it and have one 

 too. 



It was about May, I think. " Sherry, let's buy a 

 sailboat and sail for Georgian Bay this summer. What 

 say?" 



Now, coming from the South as I did, I hadn't 

 a very definite knowledge of just what and where 

 Georgian Bay is. I knew it was up there somewhere 

 near Nova Scotia and Duluth, but just exactly where 

 I wasn't sure. 



"All right, Ben, you're on. Is this bay large enough 

 to get a sailboat in? I acknowledge that as a sailor 

 I'm well qualified, for in Oklahoma I had consider- 

 able experience on prairie schooners, but I like plenty 

 of room for sailing." 



It took us seven days to get to our first stopping 

 place. This was some hundred miles from Georgian 

 Bay, too. During those seven days I had spent all 



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