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beifan to scoop the fish with hand-nets 
and load them into the live-box, which 
was soon filled. But the one haul was 
required to furnish all the fish needed. 
The lead-line was lifted and the smaller 
fish allowed to escape — perches, sunfish, 
catfish, eels and what not. The fish in 
the boat were large white perch, yellow 
perch, whiting, tailors (bluefish), rock- 
fish (striped bass) and other fish with 
which we were not on familiar terms. 
The striped bass ran from five to twen- 
ty pounds, and the bluefish from three 
to ten pounds, but I had seen larger ones 
in the fish market brought from Chesa- 
peake Bay. A few years later, when at- 
tending high school, I usually passed 
through the Lexington fish market ad- 
miring the fine display of the finny beau- 
ties. One day there happened to be some 
unusually large striped bass on sale, 
the largest I had ever seen. One colossal 
bass was being weighed and I stopped to 
see the result. The scales were wooden 
ones some four feet square, hung on 
chains. On one was the big fish and on 
the other two fifty-six pound weights. 
The weights were a little heavier than 
the bass, and there seemed to be no 
other weights. One of the men turned 
to me and asked how much I weighed; I 
said one hundred and three pounds. He 
then removed the large weights and 
placed me on the scale, when it appeared 
that the fish was slightly in excess of my 
weight. The man then said that the fish 
weighed between 10-3 and 112 pounds, and 
gave it as his opinion that it weighed 
about 107 pounds. It is my belief that 
it was the largest striped bass on rec- 
ord, as I have never seen or heard of one 
that was any larger. 
(TO BE continued) 
SALESMAN 
AND CAMPING 
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 300) 
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tendant awaking of the bird songs, 
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then some night a big moon is set high 
in the heavens, to beam its smile of wel- 
come. A big owl laughs at the world 
with you, from his perch in the big pine. 
The far-off cry of a lonely loon breaks 
upon the still night and, hushed to a low 
murmur, you catch the sound of the gurg- i 
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