THE GAME FISHES OF THE WOELD 



She also had a mink or two, 



About her dainty throat ; 

 A bird of Paradise, a tern, 



And ermiae made the hat 

 That perched at jaunty angle 



On her coiffure, largely rat ; 

 Her tiny boots were sable topped, 



Her gloves were muskrat, too ; 

 Her muff had heads and tails of half 



The " critters " in the Zoo ; 

 And when she walked abroad, I ween. 



She feared no wintry wind ; 

 At keeping warm 'twas plain to see 



She had all nature " skinned." ' 



When the angler reaches the semi-tropics, as Bahama, 

 he "vdll find that fish scales are used in ornamenting boxes 

 and frames, various objects being covered with them, calling to 

 mind a room in the old Tarpon Club in Texas, where the walls 

 were covered with tarpon scales, each signed with the name of a 

 victorious angler. On one is my own name, though I have for- 

 gotten the length of the fish, it being impractical to weigh tarpon, 

 as they are not killed unless needed. 



In 1909, I was off Key West, Florida, in the centre of a fleet 

 of boats fishing for kingfish and mackerel, and the sport was 

 fast and furious. The kingfish resembles a giant Spanish 

 mackerel, and it is only a different species. The larger fish is a 

 living silver arrow, and when leaping and biting, it presents a 

 splendid spectacle, as, lite the tuna, it is a jimiper at the bait, 

 rarely doing so when hooked ; covering with great leaps ten. feet 

 or more, tossing the lure into the air, and playing havoc with poor 

 tackle and the nervous angler. One can really obtain a better 

 idea of the strength of the fish with a hand-line, as it is a marvellous 

 fighter and leaper ; its movements being like beams of light. 

 Jordan calls it ' one of the greatest of all game fishes,' and it 

 certainly justifies this encomium when played, with rod and reel, 

 as the late Mr. St. John iCTewberry played it, with the finest tackle. 

 Anglers take specimens thirty and forty pounds in weight, one 

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