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Dick, working the re oar at the stern of the boat, rowed out and seized the floating scull, bringing it on board Foot by foot he hauled his catch towards the boat till the long gleaht had been heard for s The lord of the place had got sound of it A dark fin rippled the water; and as Dick, pulling on his line, hauled his catch closer, astreak that was the albicore vanished as if engulfed in a cloud The line came in slack, and Dick hauled in the albicore's head

It had been divided frorey shadow slipped by the boat, and Dick,the albicore's head, from which he had taken the hook, he hurled it at the reat shark, with a movehy to rock, turned upon his back and engulfed the head; then he slowly sank and vanished, just as if he had been dissolved He had come off best in this their first encounter--such as it was