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Show A Fish Story. Col. Sinn, of the Park theatre, is telling tell-ing one of the fishiest of fish stories. Ha says and ho never smiles when he says it that he was yachting and bluefishing off Fire Island, and that a big ten pound bluefish ran away with his hook and squid, and that, although there were several hooks aboard, there were no more squids; that he wrenched off the silver handle of a handsome umbrella that had been presented to him the winter before by his son Walter, and running the hook through it used it for a squid. "The silver head," said the colonel, "was bright and highly polished, and shone in the water like a thing of life. I had not been trolling with it five minutes min-utes before I felt a tremendous tug on my line and then a quick slackening. slacken-ing. I pulled it in and found my umbrella handle had been captured by a fish. That ended our fishing for that day, and we returned to the Surf hotel much disgusted. I had entirely forgotten the incident, when one day a year later, after returning return-ing from Europe, I happened to be dining at John Baylis' with a party of friends,, . We ordered bluefish. Mine host brought on the table in due time a magnificent fellow that . must have weighed fully twelve pounds. I determined deter-mined to carve myBolf, and, sharpening my knife, cut it open in the middle. Would you believe it, to my surprise, right in the stomach of that fish I discovered dis-covered the silver head of my umbrella that I had used for a squid the year be-forel" be-forel" Brooklyn Eagle. |