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THE DEVIL FISH OF THE GULF. 
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capsizing both boats; and at the same time snap¬ 
ping the harpoon and loosening the other boat, 
it was seen going out to sea and disappeared in 
the distance. 
Mr. Leach, who is a locomotive engineer on the 
Q. & G. N. Railway, says he has had some wild 
rides, but this one capped the climax. His ver¬ 
sion of the fish fouling his boat was that the 
anchor caught in its mouth and when the 
fish, becoming frightened, started to sea, 
the pressure of the boat held the anchor against 
him until he made the sudden dive when har¬ 
pooned, and the anchor cleared itself. 
If this fish story won’t do, I will tell you 
another next time. Cotter. 
W. G. Stevrett in the Galveston Nezvs. 
Among the visitors to this resort this year was 
one Mr. Mayer, of New York, who comes to 
the place every year as an ardent fisherman. 
On this occasion he brought and left a new 
harpoon. It consisted simply of a bolt of steel 
about six inches long and one inch in diameter. 
At the end is a socket for a handle of half inch 
in diameter. Just below the socket is an eye in’ 
the bolt, like the eye of a needle. From the 
eye to the other end of the bolt there is a taper, 
until the point is reached, when it is as sharp 
as a needle. The whole is silverplated and as 
smooth as glass. Now, set into the sides of 
the bolt are two prongs and steel working on 
hinges. These are flush with the bolt when the 
harpoon penetrates, but when the harpoon is 
pulled, barbs an inch and a half in length each 
flv out at right angles with the bolt. In the eye 
of the instrument a rope is tied. When we 
started out fishing on the morning of the cap¬ 
ture, Mr. Cherry, with his boatmen. Ed. Kline, 
took this instrument with them and also about 
150 feet of strong rope. It was the intention 
not to essay the capture of the fish till evening, 
when Mr. Cotter, with his experience and large 
launch, should be the chief factor in the event. 
We. thirteen boats in all, were to fish for tarpon 
and mackerel, and if the devil fish should be I 
seen, then a return to the hotel should be made 
and preparations entered on for the evening 
battle. But we had not been on the mackerel 
grounds a half hour before the Cherry boat 
espied one of the creatures basking in the sun 
a short distance from the end of the jetty. There 
was no thought on that boat of returning for 
Cotter. Mn Cherry got out of his boat into 
the boat of Dr. Abler, and Dr. Alder’s boatman, 
Mr. Farley, got in with Kline. They rolled all 
their rope into a coil so that it would not hitch 
or tangle and then gently approached the 
monster. The skiff, or boat, in which they were 
was a gasolene launch. Kline adjusted in the 
socket of the harpoon an iron rod about eight 
feet long. It was a half inch in diameter. The 
weapon was made so that when the blow was 
struck the handle would come out, leaving the 
harpoon proper attached to the rope in the flesh 
of the victim. 
When the two men had reached within a few 
feet of the fish, which evinced not the least fear, 
Kline got up on the seat, he is over six feel 
and of powerful build, hurled the harpoon with 
all his strength. With a bolt of steel about the 
length of a railroad spike, with the weight of 
eight feet of half-inch iron rod behind it and 
with a man of marvelous strength impelling it, 
the harpoon sank into the mass of meat several 
inches. There was a boiling of water. The boat 
started as a flushed quail. The bow sank deep 
and away it went for the gulf. The two men, 
accustomed _ to the sea and things out of the 
ordinary, settled in their seats in a moment. 
Each held the rope and, I think, had it around 
some sort of stubbin’ post at the bow. The sudden 
rush and speed might have broken the rope or 
the barbs of the harpoon in less skillful hands, 
but the craft was in skillful hands. Rope was 
let out in the rushes. Rope was drawn in on 
curves or the least cessation of extreme effort 
on the part of the wounded monster, which 
soon demonstrated that its wounds, or the re¬ 
straint placed on it had rendered it unable to 
maintain a straightaway course. The rest of 
