Something white and oval flickered and fluttered through the green.

"I'll lay my wage an' share he's over a hundred.

Are you so everlastin' anxious to land him alone ?" Harvey's knuckles were raw and bleeding where they had been banged against the gunwale; his face was purple-blue between excitement and exertion; he dripped with sweat, and was half-blinded from staring at the circling sunlit ripples about the swiftly moving line.

The boys were tired long ere the halibut, who took charge of them and the dory for the next twenty minutes.

But the big flat fish was gaffed and hauled in at last.
"Beginner's luck," said Dan, wiping his forehead.