Aug. 18, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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STABBED BY A SWORDFISH. 
Eugenio Martinez, a Casa Blanca fisherman, 
was yesterday taken through the town of Coji- 
mar to Hospital No. 1, where he is now lying, 
suffering from a wound which he received from 
a swordfish while out three miles from Havana, 
engaged in fishing. 
Martinez, who is an expert fisherman and lives 
at the little borough of Casa Blanca, yesterday 
left in a small boat accompanied by a fellow 
fisherman for the purpose of landing some sword¬ 
fishes for which he always finds a ready market 
in Havana. As they were about three miles 
away from the Morro they stopped the boat, 
letting out the hook baited with bacon. They 
had not waited long when a tug was felt at the 
end of the line which carried the boat in an 
easterly direction at a very rapid pace. Martinez, 
who had the line in his hand, was standing in 
the forward part of the boat when the fish 
stopped all of a sudden and making a rush at 
the boat jumped through the air and striking 
Martinez, whose leg he pierced through. The 
rush of the fish threw Martinez overboard, but 
he never lost control of himself, and managed 
to again get on fcoard. His companion laid him 
on board, and tied the line to the boat. They 
immediately made for the Cojimar shore where 
the wounded man was taken ashore. 
His swordfishship, which was by that time com¬ 
pletely exhausted, was taken ashore, and after 
being cleaned weighed over fifty pounds.—Havana 
Post. 
Uncle Siah was an old fellow, fond of the 
woods, and of telling big stories; but he would 
fly into a passion if anyone doubted his word. On 
the banks of the Merrimac was an old, deserted 
farm house, with no doors or windows. We were 
sitting around the store one evening when Uncle 
Siah said he was sitting in the old farm house 
that afternoon, when a partridge flew through 
the house, in at one window and out at the other. 
One of the boys said, “I guess it was a two- 
legged partridge.” “It’s a lie,” shouted Uncle 
Siah, as he left the store and wended his way 
home, mad all through that anyone doubted his 
story. Was There. 
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