let go our end � as i am going to do now so that those can their he went below with a monkey the nut and let the hook drop off when the had hauled their into their boats and made everything a of citizens took them off our hands and led them away to jail ay ay ban a great big fool said but he changed his mind when s the admiring crowded aboard to shake hands with him and a couple of newspaper men took photographs of the mary and her captain vi it must not be thought from what i have told of the greek that they were altogether bad far from it but they were rough men gathered together in isolated and lighting with the elements for a they lived far away from the law and its workings did not understand it and thought it tyranny especially did the fish laws seem and because of this they looked upon the men of the fish as their natural enemies we their lives or their living which is the same thing in many ways we traps and the � � of which had cost them considerable sums and the making of which required weeks of labor we prevented them from catching fish at many times and sea son s which was equivalent to preventing them from making as good a living a they might have made had we not been in existence and when we captured them they were brought into the of law where heavy cash were collected from them as a result they hated us as the dog is the natural enemy of the the snake of man so were we of the fish the natural enemies of the but it is to show that they could act generously as well as hate bitterly that this story of is told lived in next to big he was the largest and most influential man among the he had given us no trouble and i doubt if he would ever have with us had he not in a new salmon boat this boat was the cause of all the trouble he had had it built upon his own model in which the lines of the general salmon boat were somewhat modified to his high he found his new boat veiy fast � in fact faster than any other boat on the bay or rivers forthwith he grew proud and and our with the mary on the sunday salmon having wrought fear in their hearts he sent a challenge up to one of the local conveyed it to us it was to the effect that would sail up from on the following sunday and in the plain sight of set his net and catch salmon and that le grant might come and get him if he could of course and i had heard i o nothing of the new boat our own boat was pretty fast and we were not afraid to have a brush with any other that happened along sunday came the challenge had been abroad and the and folk of turned out to a man crowding wharf till it looked like the grand stand at a match and i had been but the fact of the crowd convinced us that there was something in s dare in the afternoon when the sea breeze had picked up in strength his sail into view he along before the wind he a score of feet from the wharf waved his hand like a knight about to enter the lists received a hearty cheer in return and stood away into the straits for a couple of hundred yards then he lowered sail and drifting the boat by means i i of the wind proceeded to set his net he did not set much of it possibly fifty feet yet and i were at the man s we did not know at the time but we learned afterward that the net he used was old and worthless it catch true but a catch of any size would have torn it to pieces shook his head and said i confess it me what if he has out only fifty feet he could never get it in if we once started for and why does he come here his in our faces right in our home town too s voice took on an tone he continued for some minutes to against the of in the meantime the man in question was in the stem of his boat and watching i� the net boats when a large fish is in a net the by their agitation the fact and they evidently advertised it to for he pulled in about a dozen feet of net and held aloft for a moment before he flung it into the bottom of the boat a big glistening salmon it was greeted by the audience on the wharf with round after round of cheers this was more than could stand come on lad he called to me and we lost no time jumping into our salmon boat and getting up sail the crowd shouted warning to and as we darted out from the wharf we saw his worthless net clear with a long knife his sail was all ready to go up and a moment later it fluttered in the sunshine he ran aft drew in the sheet and filled on the long toward the i by this time we were not more than thirty feet was he knew our boat was fast and he knew further that in fine sailing few men were his equals he was confident that we should surely catch and i shared his confidence but somehow we did not seem to gain it was a pretty sailing breeze we were gliding through the water but was slowly sliding away from us and not only was he going faster but he was eating into the 