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Show THE SPEEDY TUNA. Irving Wright, one of the most successful suc-cessful fishermen ln this region, has Just returned home from that fisher's paradise, Santa Catallna island, and standsj sponsor for a tuna story which gives some Idea of the wonderful swimming swim-ming bower of the big Pacific game fish. "Very few tunas had been caught up to 'the time I left," he said, "but one of those which wasn't caught taught me something that makes me wonder still. Tunas, according to the Catallna fisherman, fish-erman, can sprint under water something some-thing jike 900 feet in four and a half secondB. That Is a fact that has been recorded time and again as one of the big fellows was taking out the line from the reel. The tuna can, if he feels like it J give odds to the fastest express trains in the world. "Thei day I saw Mr. Tuna I was out for black bass ln a naphtha launch. There (was a little 'spat' ln the water a few rods off, and a flying fish bounced out on a flight through the air. He had Just barely cleared the water when there was an angry swirl right under his tall. mat iuna is aner me nymg nsh,' said the man. who was with me. " 'Bosh,' said I; 'he might as well give it up. I The tuna can't keep track of a flying, fish.' " 'You'll change your mind,' said my companion. "Then we looked at the flying fish. Now, I don't want to say how far that flying fish actually went in the air. People1 say that they're capable of doing a halffmile flight. This one apparently apparent-ly came pretty near It. "A flying flsh doesn't have to go hack Into the water at the end of his flight, either. He merely comes down on the water J kicks it and Is off again. Of course; he can't keep that up a thousand years, but It's wonderful how far he can go. This little chap made a beautiful beau-tiful flight, and when he came down he hit) the water a neat little slap and went eff again at a sharp angle on the second flight.. "He 1 had barely got out of the water when old Mr. Tuna kicked up a big swirl tight under him. We were up on tiptoes then. The flying flsh made a second flight, almost as good as his first, and then spun off again, like a well-thrown, clam shell ln a Bklpplng match! But again there was a swirl under I him Just after he Btarted. He made five flights from the time we first saw htm. and every time he started he changed his direction. "But the tuna wasn't doing his chasing chas-ing for fun alone. He was looking for that flyer to fill a greedy stomach. And Just as the little chap was beginning his sixth flight in a dazed, frightened way. he was grabbed and drawn un-der."-San Francisco Cor. New York Sun. |