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Finally it was agreed to hoist a signal of dis¬ 
tress, though it was certainly a shameful thi.ng 
for twenty-six- men to do, and call out the life¬ 
saving crew. So we hoisted a red and a white 
handkerchief on a fishing pole and stuck it as 
high as possible toward the sky. At this sea¬ 
son of the year the life-saving service has-a man 
at each station in the cupola on the tcp of the 
building. The watch at the Pass saw the signal; 
with his glasses ascertained our trouble. He 
notified Mr. Cotter, who, with another harpoon 
and a Savage rifle, shooting a .30-30 soft nosed 
bullet, came out to where we were yet playing 
the “ring around the roses” with what was once 
our prize, but which now had about reversed 
conditions and made us its prize. 
Cotter anchored his large launch and, betaking 
himself to a boat, proceeded with his weapons 
to the side of the boat immediately attached to 
the devil fish. But I am getting on too fast. Be¬ 
fore Mr. Cotter came, Walter Crow, of Waxa- 
hachie, in a launch with his wife, who had been 
sloshing around fishing for tarpoon, mackerel, 
and taking a long shot now and then at a snipe 
or other sea bird with a pump gun, arrived on 
the scene. Ardent sportsman, he came enthu¬ 
siastic. He hauled up by the side of the boat of 
Kline and Farley. Some one suggested that 
Kline pull the fish to the surface and that Mr. 
Crow should shoot. At once a chorus filled the 
air, and would have been heard above the storm, 
if there had been any, "Don’t shoot!; you might 
hit .somebody;” "Don't shoot; the shot will 
scatter;” “For heaven’s sake, don’t shoot.” Mr. 
Crow, evidently impressed by this loud and uni¬ 
versal request, and further by the fact that the 
monster persisted in remaining twenty to thirty 
feet in the depths of the sea, turned his attention 
to relieving the two tired boatmen by assisting 
them at the ropes. And he did valiant service. 
When Cotter came alongside of the Kline-Farley 
boat he quickly got his harpoon ready and the 
ropes adjusted. Then Kline, Farley, Cro^y and 
Cotter used their supreme efforts to pull the fish 
tO’ the top. For a time their efforts were un¬ 
availing. But after awhile the line slackened a 
little and the bulky thing began to arise. Up, 
up it came, the personification of stubbornness 
and weight. When within two feet of the surface 
Cotter, with all his force, threw v his harpoon. 
The monster, stung again, threw one of its flip¬ 
pers in the air, sunk in a flash, was gone again. 
Men who had been standing up in their boats 
to witness what they hoped would be the coup 
de rnaitrc, fell back in their seats with a back- 
dislocating jolt. Again the monotonous travel 
around the gulf began. It was about 2 o’clock. 
Two ropes were attached to the fish now, and 
the two could be used by two crejvs to- stop him 
and get to the surface. Time and fatigue were 
required to stop him. Strength was required 
to get him to the surface. 
Time, and a short one, and fatigue, did what 
was expected of it. The subterranean locomotive 
began to go slow. Then it stopped. Now was 
the time for strength. Down at the bottom the 
creature lay, full eighteen hundred pounds in 
weight. The two crews bent over to get hold 
of the ropes as near the water as possible. They 
heaved. From every throat came cheers of en- 
couragment. They heaved again and there was 
slack in the ropes. Again the cheers arose and 
the monster weight gradually came up to the 
surface. Cotter seized his rifle. Bang! There 
was a splash. Away went the boats again. But 
there was one shot in him anyhow, and one shot 
from a Savage with a soft-nosed or dum-dum 
bullet means death. Again the creature slowed 
up. Again supremest effort lifted it to the top. 
Again, bang! Then, bang-bang! The creature 
sunk. But there was no tightening of the ropes 
on the boats. It had sunk under mortal, para¬ 
lyzing wounds. Slowly again it was brought to 
the top. The blood from it reddened the sea 
all around. Ropes were attached to it and then 
fastened to the big launch and back toward the 
hotel it was towed, while the victors, or those 
who had engaged in the hunt, went other ways, 
since the launch could pull no more than the great 
weight which it had at its stern. 
When the shore was reached, the island people 
and all the guests of the hotel, flocked to the 
beach to see it. Thirty or forty boys and men 
