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Show EASILY TOWED CANAL BOAT Remarkable Strength Displayed by Three Hundred Pound Carp, According Ac-cording to Captain. With a big piece of fried carp as his corroborative evidence; Capt Tom Moore of canal towage boat No. 8, in service on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, related a fish story of some magnltudo when his boat reached here recently, says a Cumberland (Md.) correspondent of the New York Herald. Her-ald. "Wo were slipping along In the Dig 'Pool," sat '. Captain Tom, "when I saw an enormous carp swimming near the boat. I slezed my rifle and fired, stunning htm. Up ho comes, belly up. "Then I Jumped ashore and slipped a mule collar over the fish's head and .back to Just behind the gills. It fit snug. He couldn't shako it off. Then I tied one end of a line to tho collar and the other to the boat and got aboard. "In a few minutes tho carp came to and started like a flash down tho canal, and ho yanked the old boat along with ease. I yelled to the driver to unhitch his mules and trot along behind be-hind and the carp pulled us clear Into Cumberland. When we got to the basin ba-sin here I hilled the carp. It weighed three hundred pounds. And there," concluded Captain Moore, pointing to the dish of fried' fish, "is a pleco of It, if you don't bolleve me." |