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I ; : "Well , Jim , " he said , putting out his
! j J i . , > , 'hand. "I hope you're feelin' out of
Ii ! ' ; . ' eight. " Wheaton took his hand and said
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I I "A little fresh air wouldn't hurt you
I any , " he said , tipping himself back in :
I 'h s chair.
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. I I : . make up for it , " said Suyder. .
I : : . Wheaton did not smile ; he was very
, \ 1 I cool and master of the situation.
, \ \ I . "I came to see what you want , and it
' \ bad better not be much. " !
I I i' "Oh , you cheTJr up , .Tim , " said Snyder i
1 I 'I ' t ' 1 , 'with his : : ugly grin. "I don't know . that
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- "You'd better not rely on that too
! much. I was a poor little kid and all
: ; , the mischief 1 over knew 1 learned from
i . ' J'ou.Yhat is it you : want now ? "
I . "Well , Jim , you've : seen fit to get me
i ' . -fired . from that nice lonesome job you :
got me , back in the country. "
I "I had nothing to do with it. The
. . ranch owners sent a man here to repre-
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I tion - my giving yon a pension. I can't
do anything or the kind. " /
His tone gradually softened ; he took
on an air of patient magnanimity. Sny
der broke in with a sneer.
"Look here. Jim , don't try the goody-
gcody business on me. You..think you're
mighty smooth and you're mighty good
and you're gettin' on pretty fast. Your .
picture in the papers is mighty handsome ,
and you looked real swell in them fine I
clothes up at the banker's talkin' to that
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girj. "
"That's another thing , ' said Wheaton ,
still standing. "I ought to refuse to do
anything for you after that. Getting
drunk and attacking me couldn't possi : ,
bly do you or me any good. It was sheer
luck that you : weren't turned over to the
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police.
"That old preacher gave me a pretty
hard jar. "
"You ought to be jarred. You're no
good. You haven't even been successful
in your own particular line of business. ' :
"There ain't nothing against me any
I where , " said Snyder , doggedly. '
"I have different information , " said
Wheaton , blandly. "There was the mat-
ter of that postofficc robbery _ in Michi-
gan ; attempted bank robbery in Wiscon
sin , and a few little things of that sort
scattered through the country , that mak
a pretty ugly list. But they say you're
I not very strong in theprofession. " He
smiled an unpleasant smile.
Snyder drew his feet from the table
and jumped up with an oath.
"Look nere , Jim , if you ain't playin'
square with me - - "
"I intend playing more than square
with you , but I want you to know that
I'm not afraid of you ; I've taken the
trouble to look you up. The Pinkertons ; :
have long memories. ' he said . , si 'nificant-
ly. I
Snyder was visibly impressed , and
Wheaton made hastej ! to follow up his ad-
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vantage.
"You've got to get- away from here
Billy , and be in a hurry about it. At I
to-morrow night. "
"Make it two hundred , Jim , " whined
Snyder. .
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had followed him.rI'h , , : > were the same
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, ' Snyder , sharply. "X w what you got to
( \ I - vn . say for yourself ? ' . '
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! I ' . you've got to get out of here'in a hurry
1 - and stay out. "
' - "Don't get funny , Jim. Large bodies
t' . . It took long time to
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i I : . find you and I don't intend to let you gc
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I j stay about here you'll get into trouble.
' I was a fool to send you to that ranch. I
! I heard about you ? little round with the
I I i sheriff , and the gambling you carried on
I I _ in the ranch house. "
\ I ( . "Well , when you admit you're a fool
: -syou're getting on , " said Snyder , with a
chuckle.
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: : ' ; - offer ; I'll give you one hundred dollars
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- 'a"A hundred wouldn't. take me very far. ' '
t : ; , + ; - , "Oh yes , it will. What I'll do , " Whea-
I : ton wenton undisturbed , "is to buy you
' . , a ticket to Spokane tomorrow. I'll meet
: . , you here and give you your transporta
; I ti . . : ; tion and a hundred dollars in cash. Now
) r . . that's all I'll do for you , and it's a lot
I i I more than you deserve. "
I ! "Oh , no , it ain't , " said Snyder.
! I . "And it's the. last I'll ever do. " -
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" ! ! - Wheaton , sharply. He rose and picked
, ? i it up his hat. "What I offer you is opt oi
l-t J \ ; " pure" kindness ; we may as well under
/.t / 1 - stand each other. You and I are walkin
j-4 f ; ' ' along different lines. . I'd be glad to see
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ti ! .i V " you're not too old to begin. I can't have
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"That's too much money to trust you
with. "
"The more money the farther I can
get , " pleaded Snyder.
"I'll be here at S to-morrow night , '
said Wheaton ' , "and you stay here until
I come. "
Two or three men who were sitting in
the oflice below eyed Wheaton curiously
as he went out. The thought that they
might recognize him from his portraits
in the papers pleased him.
lie retraced his ' steps from the hotel }
and boarded .a car filled with people of
the laboring class who were returning
from an outing in the suburbs. They
were making merry in a strange tongue
and their boisterous mirth was an offense
to him. lie was a gentleman of position
returning from an errand of philan
thropy , and lIe remained on the plat-
form where the atmosphere was purei
than that within , which was contaminat-
ed by the rough young Swedes and theii
yellow-haired sweethearts. When he
reached The Bachelors' the dozing China-
man told him that all the others wen
out. He went to his room and spent the
rest of the evening reading a novel which
he had heard Evelyn Porter mention the
night that he had dined at her house.
The nest day he bought a ticket to Spo
kane , and drew one hundred dollars from
his account in the bank. He went at
8 o'clock to the Occidental to keep his
appointment , and found Snyder patiently :
waiting for him in the hotel office , hold-
ing a shabby valise between his knees.
At the railway station Wheaton step-
ped inside the door and pulled two sealed
envelopes from his pocket. "Here's your
ticket , and here's your money. The tick-
et's good through to Spokane ; and that's
your train , the first one in the shed. Now
I want you to understand that this is the
last time Billy ; you've got ta > work and
make your own living. I can't do any-
thing more for you ; and what's more , I
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won't.
"All right , Jim , " said Snyder. "You
won't ever lose anything : by helping me
along. You're in big luck and it ain't
going to hurt you to give me a little
boost now and then. "
"This is the last time , " said Wheaton ,
firmly , angry at Sn 'cier's hint for fur-
ther assistance.
Wheaton stood inside the station and
watched. the man cross the electric - li ht-
ed platform , show his ticket at the ga'te ,
and walk to the train. He still waited.
watching the car which the man boarded \
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Saxton dinnd alone at tjie Clarkson
Club , as he usually did , and v/ent after-
ward to his office , which he still main-
tained in the Clarkson Nalional Build-
ing. He had been studying the report of
an engineering expert on a Colorado ir-
rigation scheme and he was trying to
master and correct its weaknesses. As
he hung over the blue-prints and the
pages of figures that lay before him , the
flashing red wheels of Mabel Margrave's
trap kept interfering. He thought he
understood why his friend Warry had
been so occupied in his office of late ;
but whether Warry and Evelyn Porter
were engaged or not , Warry ought to
find better use for his talents than in
amusing Mabel Margrave. The elevator
outside discharged a passenger ; he heard
the click of the wire door as the cage
receded , followed by Raridan's quick step
in the hall and Warry broke in on him.
p " 'Yel1 , you're the limit ! I'd like to
know wliat you mean , by roosting up here
and pot staying in your room where a
white man can find you. " He stood with
his hands thrust into the pockets of his
top-coat , and glared at Saxton , who lay
back in his chair. "I wish I could rattle
you once and'shake you out of your
Harvard aplomb ! "
"That's a very pretty coat you have
on , Mr. Raridan. It must be nice to be
a plutocrat and wear clothes like that. " I
"The beastly thing doesn't fit , " growled I
Raridan , throwing himself into a chair.
" ' clothes don't fit and
"I don't fit , and my . ,
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see a nerve specialist. "
"I say : , Saxton , " he said , calmly.
"Well ! Has Vesuvius subsided ? " Sax-
ton sat up in his chair.
"What a merry-go-round , of a fool I
make of myself ! As I'm a living man ,
I had no more intention of driving with
that girl than I had of going up in a bal-
loon and walking back. You know I
never knew her well ; I don't want to
know her , for that matter ; not on your
life ! "
"Is this a guessing contest ? I suppose
I'm the goat. Well , you didn't care for
Miss Margrave's society ; is that , what
you're driving at ? She shan't hear this
from me ; I'm as safe as a tomb. More
over , I don't enjoy her acquaintance. Go
ahead now , full speed. "
" : \nd it was just my luck that I got
caught this afternoon , " continued Warry ,
ignoring him. "Sometimes it seems to
me that I'm predestined and foreordained
to do fool things. I've been working on
a washerwoman's suit against the Trans-
continental-running their switch through
her back 3'ard-and I had put away all
kinds of temptation and was feeling par-
ticularly virtuous ; but here came the
Margrave nigger with that girl's note ,
and I went up the street in long jumps
to meet her , and let her drive me all
over town and all over the country. I
wish you'd do something to me ; hit me
with a club , or throw me down the ele-
vator , or do something equally ] brutal and
coarse that would jar a little of the folly
of me. Why , " he continued , with utter
self-contempt , through which his humor
glimmered , "I ought to have turned down
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Mabel's invitation as soo'n as I saw the
monogram on her note paper. Three
colors. and letters as big as your hand !
My instinctive good taste falters , old
man ; it needs restoring and chastening. "
"I quite agree with you , sir. But it's
more gallant to abuse yourself : than Miss
Margrave's stationery-that is , if .1 am
correctly gathering up the crumbs of
your thought. "
"Sec here , John , she means a whole lot
to - me. You know whom I mean. " Sax-
ton knew he did not mean Mabel Mar
grave. "You know , " Raridan went on ,
"we were kids together up there on those
' 'hills. We both had our dancing lessons !
at her house , and did such stunts as that
together. " . . : -3 : , $ " . . . _ , . . , . , .
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"I want to work land show that I'm
sojjje good. I want to make myself wor-
thy - of her. ! - ' " IIf. . got gp and walked the
floor , while SaxcM" sat "and watched him.
"I . . can't talk about it ; you understand
what I want to do. It has seemed to me
lately that I have more to overcome than
I can cVer manage. " He stood at the
window playing with the cord of the
shade and looking out over the town.
Saxton walked to the window and stood
by him , saying nothing ; and after a mo
ment he put his hand on Raridan's shoul
der and turned him round and graspod
Warry's slender fingers in his broad ,
strong hand. -
"I understand how it is , old man. It
isn't so had as you think it is , I'm sure.
It will all come out right. "
( To be continued. )
Spring in the Park.
They strolled through the park.
Every few seconds he would blissfully
squeeze her hand. And all the loung-
ers and nurse maids on the benches
; rinned their broadest. .
"Clarence , " she whispered , red with
blushes , "stop this instant. " ' -
"Oh , don't worry , darling , " he
laughed. "I am only showing my sen-
timent. "
"Yes , but I don't like that kind of 1
sentiment. "
"Why not , dear ? "
"Because it is 'public sentiment. ' "
Quite Safe.
She - Have . you any strawberries ?
Dealer Yes'm. Here .
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$ ? 1.50 per box.
She - Goodness ! They're miserable-
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Dealer-I know , ma'am ; but th'ere1 I
ain't enough in a , box to do you any
larin.
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Wifey ( ; - It certainly does one good
! : o have Dr. Jolly when one is sick. -
Hubby-Oh ! I don't think he is any I
better than the other doctors.
"But he is so pleasant. "
"Well , how can he be otherwise
A'hen he is getting $3 for a ten-minute
call : "
New Complexities
"What do the letters R. S. V. P. at '
the : bottom of this invitation mean ? "
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isked ; : Mr. : Cumrox.
"Wliy , everybody knows that they
signify 'Please' answcr. ' "
"Great Scott ! This spelling reform
is playing smash , isn't it ? " - Washing-
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The daily ; mail of the President of the United States averages about 450
letters , and it has been falling off gradually since the inauguration. During
the month of March he received as high as 2,000 letters a day , but the
greater part of ' them were purely formal , conveying congratulations , appli-
cations and commendation for office , suggestions and comments upon his in
augural address and newspaper reports of his policy. President Roosevelt
used to receive au average of 500 letters a day , probably more than any
other President , and since Cleveland's time the mail at the White House
has more than doubled. Probably President Roosevelt received more letters
than any other man that ever lived , and they covered an infinite variety of
subjects. If the President tried to read all of the letters he receives he
would have very little time for anything else , but before he sees it his mail
is opened , read , assorted and classified according to the subjects referred
to. This. is done by confidential clerks of experience , who have specific in-
, structions. All letters referring to routine matters are sent direct to the
various bureaus and departments of the government having jurisdiction over
the subject matter of their contents ; all purely formal letters are answered
by a corps of secretaries under the direction of Fred Carpenter , secretary
of the President , who signs them ; communications of personal , political or .
official interest are placed in a basket for the President , and he reads as
many and as much of them as Jiis time will allo , , ' . It is probable that the
President reads one-fourth of the letters that are addressed to him. It de
pends entirely upon their contents. He never sees any of the abusive
or threatening letters. His secretaries endeavor to protect him from any-
waste of time upon those which are of no consequence. ' But he never fails
to see ary rational criticism or suggestion that is received from any citizen
of the United States. . '
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Secretary of War Dickinson , in the light of the latest German airship
triumph , has ordered Maj. George O. Squier of the Signal Corps to prepare
plan for the aerial defense of the Atlantic coast , the same to serve as a
model for similar works on the Gulf and Pacific coasts of the country. The
general plan in contemplation is to have the coast separated into zones or
ellipses of 250 miles each , at the ends of which balloon houses will be con-
structed , with supplies for maintaining modern airships and aeroplanes.
Each balloon will patrol the coast for 125 miles on each side of its station.
If Congress can be prevailed upon to spend money for this purpose each
station will have a-fleet.of aeroplanes for scout work and the air currents
will be charted.
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Estimates for defraying expenses of collecting the customs revenues ,
which have been sent to Congress by Secretary Cortclyou , show the aggre-
gate expense throughout the country is $ 1,047,022. ; Of this amount $850,000 ;
is expended for temporary employes and miscellaneous traveling expenses ,
$200.000 for the salaries and expenses of special inspectors and about $100-
000 for special agents. The largest expenditure made at any one pdrt is at.
New York , where the outlay amounts to $170,990.
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The Internal Revenue Bureau has issued a modification of its former
ruling as to the packing of small quantities of coloring matter in manu-
facturers' original packages of uncolored oleomargarine. In the new regu
lation the former ruling is construed as holding that , while the law does
not specifically prohibit the packing of small quantities of coloring matter '
in original packages of oleomargarine , it is a practice which cannot be ap
proved because of the opportunity it affords for the perpetration of fraud.
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There is little prospect that the army mule will be replaced by traction
engines in the transportation of supplies to troops in the field. Claims that
the engines would be more effective and economical have not been proved
to the military experts. The general staff reports to the War Department
that the adoption of the engine is not advisable. In transporting supplies
in a country where good roads do not prevail experts agree that horses and
j-ATiles are better than engines. . . I
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Ten thousand dollars fo.v the purchase the site upon which Fort Mims I
in Baldwin County , Alabama , stood , and for the erection of a monument is
appropriated : in a bill introduced by Representative Wiley ( Ala. ) . Nearly
all of the men. women and children occupying the garrison at Fort Mims
were massacred by the Creek Indians on Aug. 30 , 1S13/
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Many cities and civic organizations ; have asked Congress to give them
condemned cannons and rifles , but . the first request of the kind from a church
has been received. It came from the Union Guard , "a military organization
attached to the Church of the Most Holy Trinity of Brooklyn , N. Y. , " which
asked to be furnished with fifty condemned rifles.
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Secretary N \ \ - cl'l'Y'S naval ! reform plan contemplates the abolishment
of the bureau system at the navy yards , the enlargement of the general
board of the navy and the reorganization , : of the board of construction. I
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Swinburne and Mcreditli.
The refusal to place the ashes of '
George Meredith in Westminster Ab
bey is rather rough on the British
Valhalla. - Washington Post.
The dean of Westminster could find
no room in the abbey : for the ashes of
George Meredith. Must be saving a. .
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niche for Alfred Austin.-Louisville
Times. .
Swinburne wrote such good poetry
and ' marketed it so well that / he was
ible to leave an estate of $121,000 , in-
herited from his grandfather.-Kansas
City Journal.
The size of Swinburne's estate shows
fiotv possible it is to relate poetry to
ivealth . , provided the poet is judicious
snough to pick out rich ancestors.-
3rooklyn ! Eagle. ;
Air Ships.
Aeroplanes are quoted at $7,000 , but
they ; will probably come down.-Tole-
lo : Blade.
The Messrs. : Wright are paying a
lying visit to the home . folks. - Wash -
[ ngton Herald.
The French call him "Veelbure
Reet ; " but that's all right with Wil-
aur. - Galveston News.
Orville Wright says that "a . bicycle
is ; harder to learn " than an aeroplane. "
Remember those things they called
ncycles ? - Cleveland Leader.
American naval officers are demand-
ng aeroplanes for the navy. But it
reould . be unjust for that reason to
iscribe to them a desire to fly from
the : enemy's approach.-New Orleans
rimes-Democrat.
Nearly two millions of dollars have
jeen contributed by Germans to as-
: jist Count Zeppelin's baloon experi-
nents. This should be highly encour-
iging to aviators , for the Germans ,
is a rule , are a most practical peo-
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Whites Win in Georgia Strike.
The terms on which the strike qt
the white firemen on the Georgia Rail :
road was settled were in substance
that the men return to work under
conditions existing at the time the
strike began , the discharged firemen
to be reinstated and all negro firemen
to be dispensed with. The question as
to whether negro firemen were to be ,
eliminated altogether was left for a
later decision of the officials concern
ed. The railroad conceded the main
point at issue , namely , the recognition
of the seniority of the whites over the
negroes. The outcome was due in part
to the Intervention of the Federal of-
ficials and partly to the fact apparent
to all , that a' : large percentage of the
public was with the strikers. An ar
bitration commission is to determine
the remaining points at isue. ;
Modern Surgrery.
At the St. Louis City Hospital there
were performed two surgical operations
of such a ' delicate and unusual nature
that leading surgeons of the city went
there to see them. One was the inser-
tion of a rubber tube into the stomach
of Mrs. Anna Davis , of Mount Olive ,
Ill. She swallowed concentrated lye by
mistake recently. and this will prevent
her swallowing food. Hereafter her life
will be sustained by food forced into her
stomach through the tube. The other
operation was the removal of a small
splinter of steel from the arterial system
of George Watkins. 60 years old. The
splinter was carried along by the blood
and was wearing out the walls of his
arteries. The splinter was located by
means of the X-ray and then the artery
at that point ! was bound above and below
and the tiny bit of metal was removed.
Both patients will recover.
Xcw Machine : to Test Briilp-es.
The United States Geological Sur.
vey is having constructed by Tinius
Olsen & Co. of Philadelphia a vertical .
compression test machine of 10.000,000
pounds capacity for use in testing the
safety of great bridges. It is in form
a huge hydraulic press , with one ad
justable head and a weighing system
for recording the pressure developed ]
by a trinle ' plunger pump. Thus a
column of nmre than 60 feet long can
be - tested as to its sustaining power. . _ !
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The merchant looked absent-mindedly.
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red-haired ' woman
at the - young
hammering away
green gown , who was ha.mmering
industriously on the morning correspond-
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FIGHT WITH DEVILFISH. : .
Experience of a Fishing Party on a
3IexIcn.il River.
A party of English fishermen had
an unusual and most exciting experi
ence in the Panuco River recently
with a large sting ray or devilfish. It
is very rarely that these fish are seen
In the river , for they are supposed
confine themselves to the sea , al
though they are often encountered
near the coast , along the south Atlan-
tic and in the Gulf of Mexico. : Occa-
sionally a small devilfish is taken by
fishermen near the coast of Florida , .
but their appearance in the Panuco
River is something unheard of before.
The party of fishermen. in question . .
consisted'of ' ' Captain A. Paget , Captain
Molyneaux , Sir Charles Cost , Major :
Ramsden , Captain Robert Duff and
Lady JulIet Duff , who were out in
small boats in quest of tarpon when
three of these monster rays were en
countered. One of the boats being
supplied with a small harpoon tbrew
it into the nearest ray. The other
caBaT"to"lhVassistance and made ' ' -
fast in an effort to keep the first boat ,
which was fast being towed seaward
by the monster devilfish , but the five
boats and a launch which had come
up in the meantime were towed down . . _ /
the river with as little effort as if /
they had been mere toys invented for Yt
the playthings of this queer shaped
monster. After several minutes of the
wildest excitement which has ever
been experienced by fishermen in the
Panuco they succeeded in dragging
the monster into comparatively shal-
low water and were congratulating
themselves on the probable capture of -
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the great fish when the monster gave
a mighty flop that threatened to er "
gulf all the small boats , flashed under
the launch , almost capsizing it , and
succeeded in tearing out the harpoon
and thus escaped. This fish is said
to measure at least 18 feet from tip
to tip of its wing shaped fins , or flip .
pers , while the two others from the
glimpse gained were nearly the same
size. - Tampico Cor. Mexican Herald. .t
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