Outing . e dimly illu-mined sands below the phos-phorescent ripples. The native fishermen usethe deep-sea handline, ofcourse, but they seem neverso happy as when killing fishby other means—basket-trap,musket - ball, or last is against the law, i£ but a law is a poor argumentagainst native custom. Evena white man—but heres an incident: The Tenderfoot happened to be rid-ing through a valley near the sources ofthe Rio Grande in Jamaica. He restedat the house of a small planter. Hedidnt know the planter and the planterdidnt know him, which didnt matterin the least to either. They do t
Outing . e dimly illu-mined sands below the phos-phorescent ripples. The native fishermen usethe deep-sea handline, ofcourse, but they seem neverso happy as when killing fishby other means—basket-trap,musket - ball, or last is against the law, i£ but a law is a poor argumentagainst native custom. Evena white man—but heres an incident: The Tenderfoot happened to be rid-ing through a valley near the sources ofthe Rio Grande in Jamaica. He restedat the house of a small planter. Hedidnt know the planter and the planterdidnt know him, which didnt matterin the least to either. They do thingsthat way in Jamaica. As the visitor hadnot ridden down a chicken or a sucking-pig at the gateway (which is almost aduty) the host was put to it to providesomething extra for supper. Itll have to be fish, he apologized,reaching for a stick of dynamite whichhe had in a pigeon-hole of his desk. The river flowed about twenty rodsbelow the house. The Tenderfoot fol-lowed the planter and his negro boy. READING THELONDON TIMESON THE VERAN-DAH ONE MORN-ING WHEN ANALLIGATOR CAMEWADDLING UPTHE FRONT STEPS down the hill,merely wonder-~:~^Vt*§I^g^ ;Tp:.r- ing. The planterpicked out a deepblue-hole, ignited the short fuse on thestick of dynamite, held it very coolly inhis right hand until the Tenderfootsscalp was in knots, then threw it intothe pool. The stick could not have reached bot-tom before the earth underfoot gave aspasmodic kick. Instantly the calm blueof the water-hole turned to furious foamand emitted a choked detonation. Whenthe turmoil settled there were variouskinds of fish floating, belly up, on thesurface. The negro boy plunged in andthrew the biggest ones ashore, leavingthe rest to recover or—not. Thus thecommissariat department was relieved. The fish were served for were of excellent flavor, if some-what soft from concussion. The Ten- 422 THE OUTING MAGAZINE derfoot was little bothered at the timeabout how that dinner was procured,but he has since
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