Outing . f our hopesseemed near, but always the fish swamslower, or the captain paddled wild leaps of the creature werestartling but welcome, for they tired thetarpon without carrying away line. Wehad followed the fish up, down, andacross the river, and after an hoursstruggle were well out in the bay, yet atall times we had kept within two hun-dred feet of our quarry. Always we feared the tarpons gettingtoo far away. Sometimes the dangerwas of its coming too near, and morethan once it sprang at us with wide-openjaws, falling short of the canoe by inchesonly, and once it sprang fairl
Outing . f our hopesseemed near, but always the fish swamslower, or the captain paddled wild leaps of the creature werestartling but welcome, for they tired thetarpon without carrying away line. Wehad followed the fish up, down, andacross the river, and after an hoursstruggle were well out in the bay, yet atall times we had kept within two hun-dred feet of our quarry. Always we feared the tarpons gettingtoo far away. Sometimes the dangerwas of its coming too near, and morethan once it sprang at us with wide-openjaws, falling short of the canoe by inchesonly, and once it sprang fairly againstthe captain, nearly capsizing the craft. The sport of fishing is in inverse ratioto the size of the tackle compared withthe activity, strength, and weight of thefish. Linus Yale, as skillful with troutas he was ingenious with locks, used tohitch his horse to a tree by a mountainbrook near his New England home andforget for the day the anxieties of theinventor and the burdens of the
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