The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-07-12

one he said THE important tacts OF Ihe
warn happened last week. Every steamer tlat
comes up from Norfolk at TINS time OF tne
year brings among other thing many boxes
OF fresh fish. packed in ice although the sea-
son is pretty well ended now The hsh come
from along the coast below Norfolk, but
more are shipped from landing on hoa-
noke Island, North Carolina, than from
any other point. Some OF these hsh are
caught in the Pamlico and Albemarle SOUNDS
but the most of them are bluefsh ana are
taken in the Atlantic within two or three
miles of Bodies Island lighthouse. The hsher-
men live all along the east side OF ROANOKE
Island. and 90 out in their yawls and KUN
ners' every morning when the weather per-
mits They catch their fish IN gil nets, say
100 fathoms long, which they lay over lne
stern when they get into the midst OF scnool
of fsh You NAV not think it very exciting
10 catch fish that way, but wait TIL come 70
the story. n..,s :,
lone of the best fishermen on the island IS
Dan Henshaw Dan IS young fellow, say
twenty-four wears old. and he has frst-class
boat and outfit. lie can handle b at as you
can a lead pencil, he's as energetic as
a Gloucester Yankee and mighty few men III
the business get AZ large checks from us as ne
does In fact. there is but one other man IN DIS
neighborhood that does it. and he 10 enough
like Dan TO be Of the same family. though no
is no kin. and his name is Bill Adams. IN
"Curiously enough Dan and Bill both fel
in love with the same girl, and she. rather
liking the situation. played the TWO Oh lnenl
all last winter. and how It happened tney
didn't fight over her is more than know, Ior
they are both good ones in their way.
However. they did better One day last
week Tuesday. / think-the fleet started ont
through Bodies Island inlet at o'clock, Just
at the break Of day. There was gentle north
erlv off-shOre breeze and the sea was snoolh
Il. Il "a
race down TO the inlet for among the sixteen
or eighteen boats there not ore is poor
sailer nor does any slouch handle the tlller
but Dan and Bill got TO lufhng on each other
as they came 70 the wind going through the
inlet. and before they had done everybody
else had passed them. Pretty soon Dan, VINO
had the weather gauge of Bill, saw one OF the
other boats gathe. its sail TO the mast. With
that ne dropped racing for he knew that
meant fish. and away he went with Bill close
aboard.
Somehow the school was only small one
that time. and nobody else got INTO It, ana SO
the whole fleet WAS pretty soon cruising. UP
and down and out TO sea, further and further,
with never a show Of fin until maybe ,
o'clock Then all of q sudden the wind
iumped around to southeast and came a.
! mining. and with it the fish First ono and
| then another struck them. 1t was jump for
it. boys, then. Up with the sail IN bunch
around the mast and then away ait and over
with the net while those who had not struck
| them came tearing down on those VINO had
| share. -,
"As luck would have it, Dan was one Of the
| frat 10 strike the fish and the first boat to
| head into bis part of the school was Bits, ana
Bill was not SO far away either Dan doused
| his own sail. and then jumped ait to lend
| hand with the Let. standing up with one loot
| on the rail as he paid it over. and keeping an
urit al or lp
| Bill close in 10 starboard, and aft he jumped
| to pay over the net while another man was TO
! fist the sail. But before the first fathom was
| into the water something happened.
Dan had lust ran the last OF his net over
the tafrai and had turned his head TO look
again at Bill when there came tremendous
Jerk on his net and over he went headlong
| into the water A school Of sharks follow
| inc the bluefsh had struck the net, aud
there was poor Dan in the middle Of the
school The black fins were showing all
around him, and they were swapping at every
| thing in sight.
All Bill had TO do to make sure Of being
bothered no more by any rival tor the girls
hand was to Just keep on with his fishing.
| Dan wouldn't have lasted five minutes no.
nor two minutes in that fix. But Bill WASH I
that kind of a chap. Kicking the helm hard
! down. he grabbed the sheet as the other man
was letting it 90, tiattened the san ana theh,
collar. while still holding the sheet, and
hauled him on board"
That was nobly done" said the listener.
Wasn't it. though? And he ready to
kill the chap if he could ha' done 1t IN fair
well. that decided the girl as to which she
would have, didn't it,"
Yes guess 80. She married Dan the next
day. and three days later they were here IN
| New York on wedding tour"