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THEM DURN “SHIRKS” 
(Continued from page 475) 
lie on the beach to die—food for the 
fly, crow or crab. For the love of 
Mike, if it is not to be released upon 
weighting it, at least it should be eaten 
—the steaks are delicious. The big 
sharks, too, are now considered by the 
fishermen to be too valuable to be merely 
hacked to pieces on capture; in fact, 
shark fishing is now a recognized com¬ 
mercial industry. 
It is said that they are mostly hunted 
for their hides, which manufacturers 
use for shoes and leather articles. I 
have just lately seen such shoes in the 
market; I had been told that the leather 
had not been a success, due to the fishy 
odor, but these shoes had no trace of 
smell. They looked very nice, something 
like pigskin, but rougher. 
So, brother angler and disgruntled 
fishermen, if you want to, darn the 
sharks, but if you ever have the good 
fortune to hook and play a big one on 
the proper rig, and be you victor or van¬ 
quished, I am sure that your opinion 
of this denizen of the deep will be some¬ 
what changed. I am also certain that, 
after the strenuous struggle, Mr. Shark 
will stand high in your regard as a 
game-fish and you will accord him the 
respect that he properly deserves. 
You will need but one experience, I 
think—just one to make you long for 
another. Knee - deep in the shifting* 
waters, the grass-covered dunes rearing 
themselves at your back, and the flying 
scud in your face as the huge curling 
breakers spill their tons of smother on 
the beach. The storm clouds tear across 
the sky, the gulls and crows are swept 
along as bits of fluff, their cries merely 
accentuating the loneliness of the far- 
flung waste of wild water and desolate 
beach, and in the midst of this im¬ 
mensity you stand, giving battle to the 
mighty sea creature— 
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As the mantle of evening draws over 
the blue, 
And you fish in the eventide hush, 
You may feel your bait lifted, you 
strike hard and then 
A huge shark is off with a rush! 
Or it may be at noontime, at daybreak 
or night, 
As the stars snap and twinkle on 
high— 
If once hooked you will never escape 
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TOURING WITH 
RAYMOND SPEARS 
(Continued from page 437) 
farm yards, with fresh milk, welcome 
the tent-travelers. 
“Free Camping” is seen beckoning 
along all the named trails — all the 
blazed routes from region to region. 
One may find ocean beach opportuni¬ 
ties, too, down the Atlantic coast— 
beautiful places where the wheels will 
sink to the hubs in sand over night, or 
at the first turn of the motor in the 
morning, if care isn’t taken. 
I suppose more good tourists, care¬ 
ful, competent and experienced drivers 
come to grief in picking out-of-the-way 
camp grounds than in any other part 
of the sport. I know that in my own 
experience I’ve mired down, ditched, 
banked and hobbled my old medium six 
oftener in making or escaping camp 
than in any other way—broken axles, 
and been obliged to jack up and out, 
stalled myself and caused myself more 
strains that way than in any other. 
But one learns, too, in getting into 
and out of camp grounds—as some of 
the after-thought, and half-witted, 
municipal ones—something of the ca¬ 
pacity of a car for real work. In a 
land where an hour’s rain puts the 
highways out of commision for a day 
or two, they put a camp half a mile 
out on a side road, and the approach 
is over an open ditch a foot deep and 
soft at the bottom after a heavy dew— 
literally. It’s better to go on forty 
miles after dark than to accept such 
careless hospitality. 
One can drive from New York city, 
or Boston, on the main highway to Chi¬ 
cago, Omaha, Cheyenne, Salt Lake 
City, and across the Great Salt Lake 
Basin, over Nevada and by Placerville, 
Sacramento, to San Francisco, and find 
all the way places where camping is a 
delightful experience and opportunity. 
Four years ago (1919) a house car 
drove up the Mohawk Valley, and for 
seventy-five miles could discover no 
“good place” to camp. This car passed 
a dozen perfectly available places—but 
inexperience and ignorance of what 
constitutes a camp ground gave the 
man and his wife a miserable day-end. 
They finally struck the obvious ground 
between Little Falls and Herkime, just 
west of the Smalls Gulf trolley cross¬ 
ing, at the top of the hill on the north 
side. I suppose this place, where a 
dozen cars can stop—sometimes some¬ 
body stretches a wire across the en¬ 
trance—is one of the best known in the 
Eastern States, simply because during 
the summer months as many as 1,500 
tourist campers pass there in a day. 
Now, in 1923, there are at least a 
score of available trail side camping 
places along this seventy-five miles, 
beauties just west of Schenectady, and 
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