The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17

Mr.. Carson, sitting on a cast-uI
half bsfrel, picked at his band.
jagged fingers, embarrassed.
II didn't see much hope OF
escape" said he.
There wasn't any," replied
Craighead. "Your escape is due
to your lack of logic, fair knight
Anyone with lick of sense would
have seen and accepted the inevi-
table. But that's another work
of fiction. ! am endeavoring to
point out, while breakfast for
seven gets itself with utensils for
two, that the fertile and fecund
mind gets hints of connotations
rich with wealth and progress
from the lowering brow of tragedy
-herself-the lowering brow of
repeated Mr.. Craighead,
as if to give the class a chance
to note the phrase in their books.
Captain Harrod, to whom Craig
head was an object of supersti-
tious wonder, leaned awry to
gaze more. fixedly into his face;
and sat fascinated, with his fin
gers crossed, as Craighead went
on with his very practical sugges-
tions.
"As to the Stickleback," went
on Craighead, eff the Stickleback
1t was"
at sho' wus." interposed the
captain. "She's the on'y sub as
has the manhole hatch hinged
by"
Assuming the fact" resumed
Craighead, ''to be as stated, the
point is, that when she hooked
the Virginia and started for deep
water, an idea came to me which
will revolutionise tarpon fishing,
as completely as our monopoly
Matched from the egg of legal
found by me, in a borrow
ed copy of Broom, a maxim on
which every law student of the
past has stubbed his toe with no
idea of its bearing on aviation
will revolutioniZe aeronautics. I'm
der present rules, the fisherman
goes forth to fish with a launch,
a rod, a reel, hook, and a null
let for bait. When he hooks the
|tarpon, he has the advantage in
weight, the tarpon, in the light
ness of the tackle. The tarpons,
however, bets his life against the
fisherman time. This is I'M
sportsmanlike graft on the fisher
mans part. 1t is like taking tot
fee from a tad"
Craighead repeated the ALTER
alive phrase for the benefit of the
approaching Mrs. Graybill.
Taking toffee from tad, cop
ping candy from a kid, filchine
fudge from a feeble filius-"
"Oh, Mr.. Craighead!" cried Mrs
Graybill. That's execrable!"
so l was endeavoring tC
show" replied Craighead. New
rules for tarpon fishing shall be
promulgated. The foot-pound co
efficient of a tarpCn-power shall
! be dynamometrically ascertained
the fisherman must fish from al
aeronef, bought of us, by James
which shall have just the powe'
of the tarpon. When he hook
the fish, each party having al
equal show, if he has the skill
and address, he will get the fish
otherwise, the fish will get him
Accurate records will be kept
land"
but excuse me, Miste' Craig
head" said Captain Harrod
"S'pose the man fishin' thatawa,
gifts aholt of fish thet's heavial
than the ev'rige?"
That said Mr.. Craighead
would be a risk of the sport. /
the tarpon should have the ba'
taste to use his advantage. Blu
victory for the fisherman woul,
be worth something recording
and he should be given highe
markings; and If the man lost
the tarpon would get no credit a
Jail. This, Captain, is one of thos
objections offered in the infanc
of all great reforms. Do no
knock. Boost! That's the radiun
rule, Captain. Boost!"
Continued Tomorrow