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      The warning came too late. Harvey had picked them from the hook, and was admiring them.

      "Ouch!" he cried, for his fingers throbbed as though he had grasped many nettles.

      "Now ye know what strawberry-bottom means. Nothin' 'cep' fish should be teched with the naked fingers, Dad says. Slat 'em off agin the gunnel, an' bait up, Harve. Lookin' won't help any. It's all in the wages."

      Harvey smiled at the thought of his ten and a half dollars a month, and wondered what his mother would say if she could see him hanging over the edge of a fishing-dory in mid-ocean. She suffered agonies whenever he went out on Saranac Lake; and, by the way, Harvey remembered distinctly that he used to laugh at her anxieties. Suddenly the line flashed through his hand, stinging even through the "nippers," the woolen circlets supposed to protect it.

      "He's a logy. Give him room accordin' to his strength," cried Dan. "I'll help ye."

      "No, you won't," Harvey snapped, as he hung on to the line. "It's my first fish. Is—is it a whale?"

      "Halibut, mebbe." Dan peered down into the water alongside, and flourished the big "muckle," ready for all chances. 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?"

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