astern of the I.iunrh. While the dredging was going on the 

 guests talkc(K — in t'.icl there was not a quiet mnnicnt on the 

 whole trip, each (uio wailing a chance to get in liix word. The 

 conversation ranged from war to astronomy, frcjm architecture 

 to pohtic^, from hiw to fishing and back over it all again. No 

 one's audience could get away and every one had his cliance. 



\\nien the word went out that the dredge was coming u]) 

 everyone went to the stern to see the catch. Up came the 

 vil)rating cable getting more and more perpendicular as its load 

 left the bottom and neared the surface until at last the steel- 

 framed canvas bag was swung on to the deck and dumped. 

 There were about a bushel of assorted seaweed, perhaps a dozen 

 starfish, flounders (classified by the Professor), crabs with 

 bodies the size of a match-head and legs and claws as long as a 

 big tarantula, and worms that might have dropped from a fish- 

 hook. The catch, except the fish and kelp, went into bottles of 

 water to be further examined and filed. 



The trip back was uneventful, except that the New Mem- 

 ber, while sitting in the bow, was savagely attacked by a large 

 wave. Part of the water escaped, but he stood up in the sun 

 the rest of the trip home. 



Just before landing the Photographic Treasurer put off in 

 the life boat to take a picture of the party. He stood on a plank 



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