Tilly, 1922 
FOREST AND STREAM 
325 
A S we breasted the somewhat quieter 
water oceanwards, 1 breathed 
easier, but not too easy. The shore was 
getting further away all the time, but at 
length the business of helping pay out 
the seine occupied my mind for the time 
being. We had it out at last and the 
long line of floats, marked by flags at 
each end, rose and fell upon the heav- 
ing surface like some huge serpent. 
“Look what's cornin’ !” cried some one. 
An immense school of porpoises was 
bearing down upon us at full speed. 
"Grab oars,” yelled Harold, “beat the 
water, make a noise or they may ram us 
— some of those fellows look as if they 
would weigh a ton — they may tear 
through the net too !” We made lots of 
noise, no doubt of it — I don’t know 
whether they n’ould have rammed us if 
we had not or if, in play, one of the 
huge creatures might have leaped aboard 
and knocked us to bits, but when they 
were almost upon us they suddenly dived 
and reappeared a hundred yards beyond 
the net. They tore along at full speed 
and disappeared in the haze of the dis- 
tant horizon. 
I sat down and puffed a few minutes 
— things had been happening rather sud- 
denly for me that morning. We headed 
back and lay off a bar over which the 
rollers thundered; too close, I thought, 
but as the boys seemed to know their 
business I rigged a light rod and baited 
up with the soft inside of a mussel. 
Kingfish were there and they were hun- 
gry — we could have boated a ton — they 
are not a very gamy proposition on 
heavy surf tackle, of course, but on our 
light rigs they furnished a lot of sport 
and what toothsome pan fish they are. 
I had one fine strike, after I had 
changed to a larger hook and baited with 
squid, and I hung a heavy fish; I played 
him for fifteen minutes or so before I 
brought him to boat, a hammer-head 
shark of about thirty-five pounds. 
Charlie belted him over the head a few 
times with his pacifier, a foot of twisted 
iron bar such as is used for reinforce- 
ment in concrete work — he seemed to 
enjoy his job as executioner of skates, 
doggies and sharks very much indeed. 
So we lazed away most of the day — no 
bass rewarded our efforts. 
Harold seemed uneasy, standing up 
every once in a while and gazing sea- 
ward. “I don’t like the looks of that 
schooner,” at last said he, “she’s been 
hanging around for the past hour or so 
just where we dropped our net. I’ll bet 
she’s lifted it, as she’s bearing away 
now' — let’s go !” 
We reeled in our lines, stowed our 
tackle in the bow, took up the hook and 
turned once more for the deeper water. 
We cruised about for the rest of the 
day, but the net had disappeared as well 
as the schooner. We never did find out 
just what had happened — had those por- 
poises returned and plunged into the net 
or had the schooner lifted and made off 
with it? The latter, very likely. I do 
not believe the porpoises would have hit 
it, I think they would haA'e plunged 
under it — no fool, the porpoise. 
Well, that was a big loss, as the boys 
had been making a rather good thing 
from the sale of their fish. The fellows 
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