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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 192

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g, and then the fish leaped high iql6.] THE FISH THAT TOOK THE MEDAL 687 into the air, his bronze sides flashing in the sun-Hght and the spines in his backfin standing up asstraight and stiff as spear-heads. He leaped re-peatedly, falling back into the water like a plung-ing dog, and varying the… … THE SAGGING LINE HAD STIFFENED TO A BOWSTRING fish, and he began to fear that even his heavytackle would not hold. He did not know how long the fight had lastedwhen he got up to lift the anchor into the canoe.The bass had made a dangerous rush in that di-rection, and Tom was afraid he might run…

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