picked up the rod I’d been riskily hold- 
ing between my legs to rest my aching 
arms, and increasing the drag on the 
reel a notch, began to wind in. Slowly 
the fish gave ground; inch by inch, I 
took in line. By this time, believe me, 
our little old boat was being right care- 
lessly handled by Father Neptune—and 
the shore looked far away to me. I de- 
liberated uneasily on the tarpon about 
my size that yesterday had so suddenly 
Jonahed into the recesses of a shark 
and recalled the bodyless head and the 
gory blotch on the sea, and I thought of 
“Home, Sweet Home” and wondered 
how fond I was of tarpon fishing. Dim- 
mer grew the landscape, higher the 
waves, harder the wind. Should I risk 
a greater strain on the line and try to 
land my fish at once or chance the com- 
ing squall. Brundy was game and 
would have played it either way. My 
problem was settled for me. A sudden 
mighty pull and then a loosened line. I 
reeled in madly, regaining the slack 
just as we saw, two hundred feet away, 
a splash, a turmoil, a flash of white. I 
felt another jerk, and alas! the fish was 
gone. Was the white flash a shark or 
the crest of a wave? Was the swirl the 
lashing of the wind or the deadly rush 
of the Scourge of the Sea? Brundy and 
I will never know. 
But this I do know, that as I pulled 
in the last of my hookless line, the rains 
descended in lashing torrents and the 
wind seemed too zealous and the waves 
too hungry and the spray too caressing 
for a poor Missouri lubber born on the 
banks of Fish Creek. 
But although Fish Creek reflections 
do not wax and blossom on the white- 
capped waves of the Gulf of Mexico, 
nevertheless when, after a long, hard 
fight, the shelter of the Pass was 
reached, I lay back in the boat in soggy, 
weary, content and admitted that my 
three hours’ fruitless, bootless fight 
would, however, be taken back to the 
banks of fishless Fish Creek to be pre- 
served in the mossy creel of memory, 
until life’s last long cast is made. 
P. S.—Dr. Sutton has often told me 
how he gets all his wonderful tackle 
and equipment out of the proceeds of 
his outing stories. I, therefore, sent 
this story to Forrest AND STREAM, re- 
questing that they handle it on the Doc- 
tor’s customary terms. I received in 
reply a request for a remittance of 
Fifty Dollars! 
R. Jie 
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red squirrels and other vermin while 
waiting for the trout season to open. 

Page 181 
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1875 to 1881 
By JAMES B. GILLETTE 
A book that will appeal to everyone inter- 
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