The sun., 1905-12-31
will ever helieve back at my home in the
East that ever caught ,uch Il fish. Why,
it's three and half feet long md beauty,
Try this bOatuan

will ever neeve back at my home in the
East that ever caught such a fish. Why,
it's three and half feet long, md beauty
Try this. boatman."
"This" came from Lexington, Ky.
You'll find some cigars in that box
Say. boss" said the gaffer, wiping his
lips, ii chap gets this for measly bonito
what comes for two hundred pound tuna?'
and he gave the bar shove. sending the
launch ahead over the calm waters.
The little spot on the horizon came nearer
and nearer. finally turning into a queer
launch with single mast ond big wooden
wheel amclships with crank handle like
that Of a grindstone. Az they ran along
side, the owner, n large red faced individual,
stopped fishing and looked up, then caught
the line.
Yes. I'm sand dabbing" he replied in
answer to u question, but it's like every
thing else, they'r" gettin' shy and small.
Tie market r skinned.
You see its ii. hundred feet here, and
it would break Il mans back to haul in line,
50 | rigged up this ere patent, | bait my
line with ten hooks, use u six pound sinke'
and the hooks are fastened to brass rod
five feet long, SO they are spread out when
it gets down.
y let it stay half an hour then wind it up
with the crapk. Here she comes now"
and little fiat fish about the siXe Of u mau's
hand appeatetl, then another; but there
were only three.
/ We GOl twenty So ldT, Sull Tue HHlltT-
man. that = 81 worth. sand dabs are in
demand. You can't tell them from English
sole
Kind Of slow life isn't it," asked the
angler.
r9h, DOM kn9w;' ,;,s, wa, the rsPIy ,l it, it,,
I've been keepin' little log taking out an
old bank book and thumbingit.
This is the twentieth? Well, on the nine
teenth California gray whale took me for
mate; he was so foot long, and lifted my boat
up 80 that she almost capsized Then he
rubbed his fins against the propeller and
pretty near busted that, and sent his blow
all over me. Whoo!
"On the eighteenth a swo' d fsh-I reckon
he was 80 foot long, looking at the angler out
Of Of, one corner , Of his eye, "t9ot me for q
my leg and broke of.
Il commenced to sink but filed the hole
with my vest and an old bag and lest man
aged to get in. On the seventeenth. nothin'
much kind OF slow, though / did haul a
man eater shark that almost chewed the keel
of.
"On the sixteenth, 2j foot grampus
bit off my undertook me for sea lion,
| reckon. On the fifteenth, q water spout
came by. lt,was mile high II foot. On
the Fourteenth"
any more, You're leading the strenuous
life. all right"
Lexington, Kentucky; you said2" re-
sponded the sand dabber softly, reach |
ing over the gunwale. "Yes, this is sure q |
strenuous life. I've had more derned curious |
things happen to mo out here than would |
All book, sure, but.ths ere entry takes the |
cake, now honest, don't it? Les see this |
ere 8 the twenty-frst, and ri write this in
my log:
Fishin in 600 foot Of water, dead oalm,
Ave miles of shore, hot day was thinkin'
how awful hot I was when heard hail
Cap, take one with me?" and the next
second, five mile from anywhere on the
high seas, was takin' the longest, oilieet,
heart warminest, cooIinest snifter that ever
tasted
SAY, boss IL You meet Mister Rocke-
'eler round anywhere huntin' for me to
iivide up his last years income send him
along this way. You can't surprise me.
IN expectin' him, and the heavy plummet
vent down with splash into the deep