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Dept. O, 
310 ' 31‘1 ECongress St. Detroit. Mich. 
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THE ARRINGTON-BISSETTE COMPANY 
Merchants and Cotton Buyers 
NASHVILLE, N. C. 
Lou J. Eppinger, March 13, 1923. 
Detroit, Mich. , 
Dear Sir—Please ship me as quickly as possible 2 Dardevles, red 
and white (the old boy himself). 
1 have had such wonderful luck with this particular bait that the 
boys around town have persuaded me to part with the two that I 
had. 1 always carry an extra Dardevle in my tackle box as 1 never 
like to take the chance of losing one, and not having another to 
replace it. 
With best wishes, and thanking you for your prompt attention, 
1 am 
Very truly yours, 
(Signed) Guy E. Bissette. 
Dardevle Gets Bass, Trout, Pike, Muskallonge 
Three Sizes—Make Your Kit Complete 
Dardevle, 3 /i inches long, 1 /q oz . weight, 83 cents 
Dardevlet, 2% inches long, 3/5 oz. weight, 85 cents 
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And so Sonnyboy thrilled under the 
touch of the tiller and brought the good 
ship Elsie up to the snowy white beach, 
despite the fact that there were project¬ 
ing bowers of gnarled mangroves on 
either side. Mike ran forward, waded 
out and tied her fast in deep water, for 
the bank ran almost sheer down at this 
particular spot. 
I complimented our new Captain on 
his prowess: praise which caused his 
eyes to sparkle. And scarcely three 
weeks before, he had tip-toed up to the 
study door, afraid to suggest that com- 
radship which was his by divine herit¬ 
age! 
It was a very beautiful place, and, so 
fay as we knew, practically untraversed. 
For fifty feet up the shining beach, the 
mangroves sullenly held their ground, 
althought that vindictive tide, eternally 
rushing in and out through the cut, was 
slowly gnawing at their vitals. 
There was romance in these clusters 
of strange trees, barren of all vegetation, 
vet thick-woven, in a thousand grotsque 
designs, and always twisting, writhing, 
as if in terrible pain. The tides had 
swept back broken barricades of them, 
which, forming at the feet of their fore¬ 
bears, stood resolutely, a futile guard. 
Somewhere around the other side of the 
key, we would find our snappers. 
The beach terminated finally, in up¬ 
standing ridges of sand and coquina 
shell, welded into solid walls, and upon 
these grew stunted live oaks and low 
bushes covered with brilliant red berries. 
They suggested the holiday season, un- 
congruously, against that setting of sun¬ 
shine and tropic landscape. , 
There were so many inviting places 
between clumps of mangroves; and the 
beach was so white, that I figured we 
could set up a camp right there, without 
fearing of any further encroachment of 
high tide. To this end, with Sonnyboy 
watching, I began to construct a hastily 
put together lean-to of remnants of man¬ 
grove limbs, long live oak poles, cut 
from the nearest cluster, and bedding of 
grey moss, of which there was the 
greatest profusion on every tree. At the 
point, half buried in sand, we found a 
sizeable sheet of tin, remnant of the tide, 
and this supplemented our thached roof 
of palmetto. 
Sonnyboy was fascinated by the var¬ 
ious processes. Now and again he gave 
assistance. Our bed would be raised at 
least three feet from the beach, in case 
storm blew the tide into our sung re¬ 
treat, for the foundation was the triple 
trunks of three dead mangroves, and 
their .snarl of roots made a natural 
mattress. 
Mike, however, had been exploring. 
We heard his excited shout from the 
woods beyond the knoll, and down to the 
beach he came clambering, whites of 
eyes showing inordinately, hands held 
high in air. 
“Lawd, lawd!” he cried, “we aint 
gwine ter need DAT camp! Com on 
quick an’ des’ look!” 
We followed him as best we could, 
he retraced his steps, stumbling ovei 
the mangrove roots, catching our bodie’ 
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