Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-08-02
z. HIGHTOWER.
TOOK JOY RIDE on PORPOISE.
Fisherman Visits Ocean Bottom on n
Finny Submarine"

New York Dispatch to Philadelphia
Record.
A ride on the back of a big porpoisc,
according to Charlie Penny, Of Elan
ders. Long Island, is just bit more
exciting than selling pink lemonade
lat a Sunday school picnic. He said
SO today
Penny jumped astride one of the big
gest porpoise ever seen in these va
tiers and took a trip with him to the
bottom of the bay and back, and 4
oy ride around Peconic Bay for nearly
a mile, w5Ie the porpoise buckad
like a broncho trying to shake off IFS
captor. It was of no use, for Penny
hung on as a Western cowboy does
to the horse he is trying to subdue.
Penny and his brothers work for Capt.
| George A. Vail. of Riverhead and Pc
comic, as commercial pursuers of the
bIuefish OF late Capt Vail and his
men have been annoyed by a school
Of fifteen or twenty immense porpoise,
Iheaded by an immense bull porpoise,
which diyed into the hungry school of
bluefisH and filled them with such
panic that they refused to take the
bait
In two power boats, armed with shot
guns, Capt. Vail and his fishermen
started out for the roundup of the
Iporpoise. Several were killed, but the
hide of tie bull was so tough that the
charges of buckshot were fired into
into his nose and along his side. The
fish jumped at least 6 feet from the
Iwa.er, turned on his side and darted
away. but so5n came to the surface
near the boat to blow again.
One Of tia fishermen had boat hooks
and while the fish was badly wounded
he still had much fight in him. Blu5-
be rand oil were oozing from the shot
holes, making him as slippery as a
| creased pig at a country fair. Tie
linen reached over the boat, but the
| fsh was alive enough to struggle and
clip away from them, even when the
fishermen got a slip moose over hira.
Penny then produced a big bluefisE
hook and tried to jab this in the thick
hide without result.
WYATT minute boys, I'm going to
have that fellow" said Charley Pen
ny, as the others were about to give
up the prize Without waiting to re-
move shoes, clothes or hat, he leaped
overheard and landed astride of the
broad back of the fish, twisted his
feet around its belly and his arms
around its neck and hung on The
fish found a new spark of life when his
enemy landed on his upper deck. He
gave a snort, dived and shot away
with a rapidity that would have mace
one of the Bliss torpedoes in full
flight look like Long Island freight
train.
Penny knew that the fish would have
to come to the surface very quickly
to blow, for he was three-quarters
dead before the excursion started. 50
he held on. A minute or two later
Penny was long way from the boats.
He calmly reached around the por-
Ipoise's head with one arm and damned
the big bluefish hook down his blow
hole. The fish was then fast. He
made another feeble effort to get away
but it was no use.
Hey, you fellows, come over here
and get your fish" shouted Penny to
his fellow huntsmen.
The boats came over. The combin-
ed strength Of the men couldn't lift
the fish in TIE power sharpie, so he
was towed to Riverhead and it took
seven men to pull him out on the
dock to have his picture taken.