AN UNSUCCESSFUL EFFORT 



til the following Monday. He gave Richard verbal permission, however, 

 to operate the car until that time without a license. On Friday evening a 

 party of four, Richard, his wife, his sister-in-law and I drove into the town 

 and parked near the Prince George hotel where we dined. When we 

 came out, one of those colored policemen, whose splendid uniforms have 

 made Nassau famous, was standing guard over the car. He addressed us: 

 "Excuse me, but could yo' tell me who is de owner of dis car?" Richard 

 stepped forward and admitted ownership. The policeman said, "Well, I 

 want to show you dat you is breaking de law in two ways. Come heah," 

 and leading Richard to the front of the Austin, he said "Dis car is pahked 

 beyond de pahkin' line. Look heah," and pointing a flashlight on the pave- 

 ment, "Heah is de pahkin' line." The flashlight was so nearly gone that 

 it failed to make a light on the pavement. "I knows de pahkin' line is hahd 

 to see but heah it is, and yo' front wheels is beyond it; and now look heah— 

 I look at de front of de car an' I find no numbah. An' look heah, I look at 

 de rear of de car an' I find no numbah." 



Richard said, "Well, I can push it back of the line," and did so. Then— 

 "I went to the Government House to get a license but the office was 

 closed. However, I found Mr. Morley and he gave me permission to drive 

 the car without number plates until Monday." 



"Well, den," said the policeman, "if de Government has given yo' per- 

 mission, I shall withdraw de complaint. Goodnight, sah." 



After my departure and while Richard and his friends were enjoying 

 Buckaroo, he had two experiences that are instructive. He was on the 

 bottom near an old wreck which was in such a state of disintegration that 

 most of it consisted of steel plates, angle iron and I-beams lying on the 

 bottom. Fish of many varieties assemble around objects of this kind, and 

 he was hunting with a "harpoon gun" that he had devised. This consists 

 of a miniature harpoon placed in a brass tube with a flat length of rubber 

 at the rear end which is stretched hke a small boy's "bean shooter" to 



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