June, 1921 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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The shot gun was a beauty; 6% pounds,' 
12-gauge, 28 inch barrels, which were 
Whitworth fluid steel. It was made by 
Coggswell & Harrison, London, plain as 
a pike staff but a work of art. It was 
finely balanced and seemed to come to 
one’s shoulder of its own volition. I 
fell in love with it at once, and said: 
“General, when you return to Eng- 
land I wish you would sell me your 
shot gun for what it cost you, for you 
can have another built, and I would be 
saved the cost of import duty.” 
“When I go back”, he said, “the gun 
is yours, bar price.” 
“No,” I protested, “I do not want it 
that way ; I could not accept it on those 
terms.” 
“Why, my dear fellow”, he rejoined, 
“If I should give you the gun and every- 
thing I possess I should still be in your 
debt; you saved my life.” I never al- 
luded to the gun afterward. 
His main object was tarpon fishing, 
and for that purpose he wanted a sail- 
ing vessel so that he could go where and 
when he pleased. As we could find 
nothing that was just suitable, I de- 
signed and had built a sharpie, thirty 
feet water line, with a very roomy 
cabin, which we christened Maeander 
as & compliment to his grandfather’s 
flagship. He made his home aboard the 
little yacht, with his retriever “Ruby.” 
When not fishing he spent his time in 
translating German, French and Span- 
ish books into English. I have a chap- 
ter of Goethe’s “Fact and Fiction” in 
my library. I procured a tarpon outfit, 
and engaged a sailing master, a bright 
young man from Key West, a good 
sailor and fisherman. While the boat 
was under construction I took him down 
to some of the inlets near Egmont 
Light, in April, when the Spanish 
mackerel and sea-trout (spotted weak- 
fish) were running in schools to the 
spawning grounds in brackish water. 
His rather heavy trout rods were just 
right for fly fishing, and we had great 
sport, better, he declared, than sea-trout 
fishing in Norway. 
W HEN his yacht was finished he 
departed for Caloosa Bay and 
Fort Myers for tarpon. In the 
summer he returned to Tampa and gave 
me an account of his experience in tar- 
pon fishing, which he said was better 
sport than tiger shooting or pig stick- 
ing (wild Ib'oar hunting). On the 
morning after arriving at Fort Myers 
he started out fishing before breakfast. 
He soon hooked a tarpon and played him 
seven hours! He was not used to the 
multiplying reel, and having too much 
line, it bunched repeatedly, so that the 
reel was useless. But with patience in 
freeing the line, and in the meantime 
keeping a taut line on the fish, he finally 
brought it to gaff. However, this ex- 
perience was sufficient to place him in 
the list of good and successful tarpon 
fishers. One tarpon of a hundred and 
thirty pounds he landed in four minutes. 
After a half hearted leap or two it 
gave up and was brought to gaff. 
“I think,” he said, “that he burst a 
blood vessel for he bled like a pig; the 
T HE talk around the fireplace in the camp never seems 
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