"He's all of a hundred." Harvey looked at the huge gray-and-mottled creature with unspeakable pride.

He had seen halibut many times on marble slabs ashore, but it had never occurred to him to ask how they came inland.

Now he knew; and every inch of his body ached with fatigue.
"Ef Dad was along," said Dan, hauling up, "he'd read the signs plain's print.

The fish are runnin' smaller an' smaller, an' you've took 'baout as logy a halibut's we're apt to find this trip.

Yesterday's catch--did ye notice it ?--was all big fish an' no halibut.