The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-22

at another he seeks shallow rivers, in
whose murmuring fords he scarce finds
room to turn his portly frame.
And the law protects him most jeal-
ously.
In the river he is guarded like king,
and when he clusters at its mouth,
lazily making up his mind to try a
change of water. as a monarch might
visit Homburg for a change Of air, he
can only be caught under certain Sc
we're restrictions.
He must not be netted within SO
many yards Of the seward limit of
the estuary. He may not be caught
wholesale. The nets must have a max
imum length Of 400 feet. They must
not be set between 7 p. m. on a Friday
and Z a. IN. On Monday.
Viewed in every aspect, the salmon
Is given exceptional chances of longev-
ity. His price Is high as his culinary
reputation, and the obvious sequel to
all these precautions is that certain
nefarious persons known as poachers
try every artifce to defeat the law
and capture him.
A favorite dodge is to run out a large
quantity Of nets in just such a tide
way as the foot of the cliff crowned by
Grange House. None can spy the op-
erations from the land, while a close
watch seaward gives many chances
Of escape from enterprising water bail
ifs, who, moreover. can sometimes be
made conveniently drunk.
When Philip hurtled into the placid
sea, his naked body shone white, like
the plumage Of some gigantic bird.
Indeed, a man who was leisurely
pulling a coble in a zigzag course
while two others paid out a net so that
its sweeping curves might embarrass
any wandering salmon who found him
self within its meshes-marked the fall
ing body in its instantaneous passage
and thought at first that some huge sea
fowl had dived after its prey.
But the loud splash startled the three
men. Not so did a cormorant or a
white winged solan plunge to secure
an unwary paddock.
The net attendants Strengthened their
backs; the oarsman stood up. The dis
turbance was so near. SO unexpected,
that it alarmed them. They looked
aloft, thinking that rock had fallen.
They looked to the small eddy caused
by Philips disappearance to see il any
sign would be given explanatory of an
unusual occurrence.
Were Philip thrown from such a
height when in full possession of his
senses in all likelihood such breath as
was in his lungs at the moment of his
fall would have been expelled by the
time he reached the water.
He must have resisted the rush of
air. uttered Involuntary cries, strug-
gled wildly with bis limbs
But as it CHANGED Mason's rough
handling IN carrying him to the bal
cony made active the vital forces that
were restoring him to consciousness.
He was on the very threshold Of re-
newed life when he fell, and the
downward flight helped rather than re-
tarded the process. Indeed. the rush Of
air was grateful. He drank In the Wig
orous draft and inflated his lungs read
lily. His sensations were those of 4
man Immersed in warm bath, and
the shock Of his conclusion with the
surface of the sea in nowise retarded
the recuperative effect of the dive
OF course he was fortunate after fall
ing from such height in striking the
water with his right shoulder. No por-
ton Of the human body is so fitted to
bear heavy blow as the shoulders
and upper part of the back Had he
dropped verticallx-on his head or his