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.

"He's all of a hundred." Harvey looked at the huge grey-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.