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before the sinker strikes the bottom. In what 
kind of territory has it landed? Does it lie 
in a miniature mountain range, or at the bottom 
of some ghostly semi-dark cavern, inhabitated 
by slimy demoniacal sea creatures, a nightmare 
place, or has it fallen down amid a forest ot 
giant kelp, sponges, gorgeous anemones, sway¬ 
ing rhythmically in the current? Perhaps the 
rolling- of the sinker will be felt. It has fallen, 
then, on a sloping plain. The rolling stops. 
1 he line draws taut. The leaden explorer may 
have fallen down a crevasse, or .be detained by 
some groping tentacle. What tales of adven¬ 
ture could the sinker tell had it a voice. Ad¬ 
ventures as strange and grim as those of Jason, 
Perseus, the Minuai, all those fabled wanderers, 
those , great ones of legendary Greece.. The 
sinker’s adventures can only be speculated upon 
by the dents and scratches it gathers in its 
journeys to the sea-bottom. 
Every tremor of the thread between the 
fingers of the experienced rock-fisher has a 
meaning for him. He takes but little heed of 
the tug, tug, tugs of the small fry worrying the 
bait like a lot of puppies round a large bone. 
He can almost see them in his mind’s eye. But 
with strange abruptness the tugs cease, the 
line lies motionless. It is evident that some¬ 
thing has happened. Has the bait yielded at 
last to the incessant attack, or have the small 
fry fled in terror before the approach of a large 
fish, or has some fearsome monster been 
aroused from his gloomy cavern by their 
.squabbling? It may be that the beating of the 
fisher’s heart will quicken a little, as he feels 
a mighty irresistible grip upon the line, as of 
some herculean hand and arm. He strains the 
line to breaking point, but his effort is.vain, as 
■though it were fast to the sandstone cliff. The 
monster withdraws to his cavern, or back under- 
meath a ledge to meditate on the hook and 
isinker, and there is nothing left to the fisher but 
■ to strain the line till it breaks at its weakest 
part. I he monster may have been an octopus, 
a great green eel, but who can say what it is 
fat the bottom of the sea? 
j 1 he fisher fixes another hook and sinker td 
,his line; there is none so persistent as he! 
This_ time, perchance, he will be fortunate ant} 
receive a spirited, honest tug on the line! 
Quick as thought he has driven the hook into 
jhis quarry, and experiences of joy of the huntr 
ing as the stricken fish rushes hither and thitherj, 
backward and forward. If it is essentially a 
rock-fish it wiTl invariably endeavor to dive 
down and wedge itself among the rock mazes. 
If a. deep-sea variety it will make for the open 
sea as soon as hooked. Perchance Atergatis, 
queen of the fishes, will rescue her subject by 
causing the line to foul a rock excrescence, or 
a large wave "will come along at a critical mo¬ 
ment and bring about the fisherman’s discom¬ 
fiture. There is many a slip between the fish 
and the frying-pay, and none know this better 
than the rock-fisher. The‘greater, therefore, is 
his exultation as he surveys the prize safely 
landed at last, gasping and flapping in the vain 
hope of so preserving itself. 
Success, however, although a satisfaction to 
him, is by no means essential to the rock- 
fisher’s happiness. Fishing serves him as an 
excuse for spending a day on the rocks. If he 
can show a return for his day, a profit without 
which to the many a day spent is a day wasted, 
some one, no doubt, will be the better satisfied’ 
As for the fisher himself, he is content to be 
about the rocks all day. And what more could 
one desire on a sunny, blue day than to listen to 
the gurgle and glucking of the tide among the 
rocks. To gaze into deep crystal-clear pools 
at the life of their inhabitants; to cool one’s 
arm in them above the elbow; to chase cunning 
crabs from their concealment, where they hoped 
to escape being used for bait. 
. There is a fascination for the rock-fisher, too 
an standing close above great green depths’, and 
starting down to where, at the bottom, form¬ 
less shapes can be discerned. He feels the 
mystery of it, and gazes fascinated as, deep 
down some great white ghostlike shape moves 
silently past, or a large blue groper drifts lazily 
along the rock-face in search for crabs or 
molluscs. It is with a half fear that he feels 
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