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CAP’N BILL—LOBSTER CATCHER. 
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had & sure enough big man with them. He must have 
been a big man; he looked it. 
‘*But he was such a jolly good-natured sort of a fellow 
that it wa’n’t very hard to get along with him and the 
fact that he was a judge didn’t seem to make no differ- 
ence. 
‘“My boat was buoyed off shore an easy pull, but we 
hed to use the tender to get to her. I looked at the 
judge; then I looked at the tender. 
“That poor little boat is several sizes too small for 
the judge, I said to myself, holding her nose down hard 
as the visitor climbed into the stern. It was all I could 
do to Keep that boat from kickin’ up and turning turtle. 
‘*Tt was the custom for me to do the rowin’ but I see 
how things was likely to be if I got in the middle with 
Knox in the bow. I could picture Knox shootin’ out 
over the deep blue sea if he ever got in there and I ever 
let go. An’ somebody was a goin’ to get wet and the 
judge was goin’ to be that somebody. 
“so I tells Knox he’ll have to row so he holds the 
boat while I get just as far up in the bow as I can and 
try to balance the big visitor in the stern. Then I make 
Knox take the for’ard oarlocks and we starts. Even 
the two-to-one couldn’t keep the nose of the row-boat 
anywhere nears the water so I felt pretty good when we 
had climbed over the rail o’ the little fishin’ boat. 
“You see I hadn’t asked the judge if he could swim. 
‘*O’ course there was no way of tellin’ that the man I 
was balancin’ over the briney deep was a future Presi- 
dent. He didn’t have any idea that he was goin’ to run 
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ATLANTIC SEASHORE DEVELOPMENT. 
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above the green trees, evolving a seashore beauty that 
even those familiar with the movement along the Atlan- 
tic are amazed. Millions are being expended both in 
private and public enterprises. The state is making 
great improvements in building roads, dykes along the 
waterfront, dredging channels and harbors and other 
public works, and private development on the waterfront 
to the bluffs and hilltops beyond is steadily narrowing 
the still available and desirable lands. Each season sees 
a further transition taking place in the erection of state- 
architects and the skill of the builders. 
This season on Cape Cod is a record breaker, the finely 
equipped New Haven train service carrying fully one 
third more of summer residents and visitors than ever 
before. Cottages, camps, palaces and caravansaries are 
annually increasing by the score, taxing the genius of 
the architects and the skill of the builders. 
Many Boston millionaires and New England’s wealth- 
iest families are building their summer homes here. From 
New York they come, from the south, from Chicago, St. 
Louis, Kansas City, Omaha and beyond, until the way 
things are moving on Cape Cod she will soon be in the 
ultra fashionable class as a summer resort. 
the White House and be such a big man in every sort 
of way. 
‘*But there’s the man right across the street now, and 
I knew him by his back and walk just the same as fif- 
teen years ago. 
‘*And I’ll bet he’s just as jolly now as he was then 
even if he is President of these United States.”’ 
Cap’n Bill knocked his pipe clean again and I knew it 
was time for me to go. 
‘Come and see me again, chum, and J’ll tell you how 
I showed Judge Taft how to bring the cap’n of the water 
boat to terms during the fishin’ trip,’’ said Cap’n Bill in 
parting. ‘‘That is if it doesn’t bore you,’’ he added 
modestly. 
I was leaving the shanty just as the big car carried 
the President away and I saw the two men take off hat 
and cap, the one to the President, the other to the man, 
and I hoped that soon ‘‘Big Bill’’ would again meet 
Cap’n Bill ‘‘lobster-ketcher.’’ 
—B. Gay— 
Copyright 1910, N. S. N. Ass’n. 
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