suddenly the line flashed through his hand even through the the supposed to protect it he s a give him room to his strength cried dan i help ye no you won t snapped as he hung on to the line it s my first fish is � is it a whale dan peered down into the water alongside and flourished the big ready for all chances some captains courageous thing white and oval and fluttered through the green i lay my an share he s over a hundred are you so anxious to land him alone s were raw and bleeding where they had been against the his face was purple blue between excitement and exertion he with sweat and was half blinded from staring at the about the swiftly moving line the boys were tired long ere the who took charge of them and the for the next twenty minutes but the big flat fish was and hauled in at last s luck said dan wiping his forehead he s all of a hundred looked at the huge gray creature with unspeakable pride he had seen many times on marble ashore but it had never occurred to him to ask how they came inland now he knew and every inch of his body ached with fatigue ef was along said dan up he d read the signs plain s print the fish are smaller an smaller an you ve took as a s we re apt to i ll lay my an share s over a hundred captains courageous find this trip yesterday s catch � did ye notice it � was all big fish an no he d read them signs right off says on the banks is signs an can be read wrong er right s deeper n the whale hole even as he spoke some one fired a pistol on the we re here and a basket was run up in the fore what did i say that s the call fer the whole crowd s something er he d never break this time o day up an we pull back they were to of the just ready to the over the still sea when sounds of woe half a mile off led them to who was around a fixed point for all the like a gigantic the little man backed away and came down again with enormous energy but at the end of each his swung round and herself on her rope we to help him else he root an seed here said dan what s the matter said this was a new world where he could not lay down the law to his elders but had to ask captains courageous questions humbly and the sea was horribly big and anchor s s always losing em lost two this trip � on sandy bottom too � an says next one he loses sure s he give him the that u d break s heart what s a said who had a vague idea it might be some kind of marine torture like in the big stone of an anchor you kin see a in the bows fur s you can see a an all the fleet knows what it means they d him dreadful could n t stand that no more n a dog with a to his tail he s so sensitive stuck again don t try any more o your come up on her and keep your straight up an down it does n t move said the little man panting it does n t move at all and indeed i tried everything what s all this s nest for ard said dan pointing to a wild of spare oars and all together by the hand of captains courageous oh that said proudly is a spanish mr showed me how to make it but even that does n t move her dan bent low over the to hide a smile once or twice on the and behold the anchor drew at once haul up he said laughing er she stuck again they left him regarding the weed hung of the little anchor with big pathetic blue eyes and thanking them oh say while i think of it said dan when they were out of ear shot ain t quite all he ain t dangerous but his mind s give out see is that so or is it one of your father s judgments asked as he bent to his oars he felt he was learning to handle them more easily ain t this time s a sure no he ain t exactly so much a harmless it was this way you re quite so an i tell you cause it s right you know he was a preacher once jacob his name told me an he lived with his wife an four children out captains courageous way well he took his folks along to a � camp most like � an they stayed over jest one night in you ve talk o considered yes i have but i don t know why it sticks in my head same as both was big accidents � s why well that one single night and his folks was to the hotel was wiped out dam bust an her an the houses struck adrift an into each other an sunk i ve seen the pictures an they re he saw his folk drowned all n a heap fore he rightly knew what was his mind give out from that on he happened up to but for the poor life of him he could n t remember what an he jest drifted an he did n t know what he was nor what he bin an way he run uncle who was n city ha af my mother s folks they live scattered inside o an uncle he visits uncle he captains courageous kinder adopted well what 