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Show iilASiG()Olj;iFISHlNGlH J..- ;They had been speaking of fishing experiences. They had just returned from the Florida coast and each of them had his own peculiar tale to telL ; ''The fun-' piest experience d evervhad in my life while pui fishing said one of the group, was during my recent' trip, and it happened In one of the more, no ted. fishing places in Florida waters;? I. was alemf. I suppose If I had not been alone the 2 thing would not have happened at all, and yet If I had had a companion with me I would have drowned no doubt, because the boat I was in was barely sufficient suffi-cient to save the life of one man. X struck a good nest of fish, and began to pull them out as fast as I could bait my book and get It into the water.;! became so absorbed m the work that I took no notice of time, -forgot my surroundings, forgot for-got everything except the fish I was continually piling into the boat Well, sir,' do you know, I simply kept piling the fish into the boat untL the weight carried me, fish, boat and all, to the bottom: my fish -ot away, and I came near, drowning before I could get out The liberated flan were so thick tL:y came near smotherli-g -e to death before X could get back to the surface of the water. . ' 2 ; Quoth the next man: ''That's nothing. ; I don't uoubt the story at all because, of the extraordinary thing that happened .to me and a fn t of mine In Florida waters a few weeks ago. We struck the same kind of luck. I never saw so many fish In my life. : We simply piled them In one after another, forgot each other, forgot the world, forgot everything except the fish. '.We simply fished and fished, until our arms ached. Our boats, were filled with fish. They were piled V until we could not see each other, and could not see the water out of which we were pulling the fish. Finally,' from behind a pile of flsh,'my friend yelled:. "Suppose we pull out, old man.'; I assented. But we couldn't budge. On examination we found that we were aground. Our boats were, resting in six Inches of water. We bad pulled so many fish out of the place that the water Lad fallen three feet and. by the way it was Just about this time that the report, was sent out from Washington that the water in the Gulf of Mexico had fallen three feet but, of course" The other fisherman had fallen asleep and, the Veracity club ad-lourned. ad-lourned. . ,:.;: ;' , ..rl? Yi. - 'i V'a' |