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Title: Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: (Price, J. P. Hyde), 1874- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bro's
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ntly ceased altogether. Then came a long strong pull of half a dozenarms and the prize slowly rose to the surface. A line was made fast to the fin and the huge fish was towed to the ship.This proved to be no light task for it seemed as though the carcass wasmade of lead. Once alongside it took the ships heaviest block and tackleand most of the crew to raise it to the deck. Part of the meat was cut offcooked for the miday meal and proved to be pretty coarse and oily and waspromply voted no good by the crew. However they had had lots of funwith the catch and were contented. Life is often dreary on a deep sea tripand any excitement like a hunt is always hailed with delight. Sometimes sportsmen shoot the sun fish from row boats, but it is a veryuncertain business. In the first place a row boat is seldom still and inconsequence makes a poor gun platform. Again a very heavy rifle must beused, and unless the fish is struck behind the eye or in some vital spot itdives and is never seen again.
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GRAMPUSSES AND NARWHALES A whale ship that was spending the summer in the Arctic regions hadseveral opportunities of watching the narwhales and grampusses. The nar-whal is chiefly famous for the wonderful twisted ivory horn which springsout of its forehead. It is not an aggressive animal, as a rule, for it is seldomknown to attack other creatures that live in the sea. On the other hand, the grampus is a great hungry beast, measuringthirty or forty feet in length; the whole year round it races up and down thecold seas searching for something to eat. The whale boats always try to harpoon a few narwhales. It is a veryexciting chase for the narwhal frequently upsets the boat; but the ivoryhorns are so valuable that men will run great risks to secure them. One morning there being no whales in siglU and the wind having falleninto a dead calm, a boat put out from one of these whale ships to see what itcould find. The sailors jjegan to fish with lines and for an hour or more hadgood luck when

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