“Then—it’s against the law?” Son¬ 
nyboy gasped, his indignation and as¬ 
tonishment increasing, and his gaze 
turned back to the grey line across the 
mouth of the distant creek. 
“It sho’ is!” Mike exclaimed, “kaze 
it don’t give dem fish.no fair chanct. 
Dat’s why. Dey des’ got cotched when 
it wuzn’t dey fault.” 
It was enough. 
The Elsie sped Eastward again and 
across to the channel and the island, 
but Sonnyboy had witnessed something 
which would always remain a vivid 
memory for years to come. He had 
seen the wrong way, the cruel way, the 
cowardly way of fishing. And it did 
not appeal to him. 
* * * * * * * 
“Camp Mystery,” as we had appro¬ 
priately called it, was as inviting as 
ever, when “Little Captain” safely 
piloted her up to the white sand shore 
again, and we all clambered out, dodg¬ 
ing the overhead maze of mangrove. 
As Sonnyboy remarked, “it was like 
going through caverns,” for often the 
clustered and gnarled brush all but 
shut out the sunshine. 
What a contrast all this was to the 
first Spring jaunt we took a month 
later after brook trout up around Mil¬ 
ford, Pa. For our next story will 
leave Florida shores behind for a 
while, and the reader will be asked to 
get out his box of flies and fare forth 
with us along sylvan ways and into 
the cool depths of almost virgin for¬ 
ests, sweet with laurel, honeysuckle, 
violets and pungent, brown shrubs. 
I had determined to leave the camp 
just as we had found it, immaculate, 
ship-shape. This was really the oc¬ 
casion for our final walk up the sand 
bluff and in under the sheltering live 
oaks. 
Sonnyboy was told how a procedure 
of this character was the rule of the 
open spaces. And Mike’s fire had 
mussed up the cleared space before the 
shack, while Sonnyboy, in his thrilling 
dreams, had kicked the palmetto bunk 
helter skelter. 
We had all but completed our task 
when the real surprise of the day took 
place. 
From down the slender, gleaming 
curve of the beach came the musical 
hum of many voices—of young, happy 
voices. 
Mike ran to the highest dune and 
shouted back to us: 
“Somebody cornin’?” 
Through the underbrush, sweeping 
bayonet and tree branches aside, came 
a stalwart, grinning Scout Master, 
followed by a dozen noisily delighted 
youngsters. They looked strong and 
brave and dauntless in their natty uni¬ 
forms, packs on backs, equipment com¬ 
plete, faces tanned, alert. Apparently 
our presence was as much of a sur- 
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