"Indeed I do," said Colin. "Mr. Wadreds was telling me some stories just the other day about swordfish-catching."
"I suppose he told you the famous story of the swordfish which charged a vessel and drove its sword through 'copper sheathing, an inch board
under-sheathing, a three-inch plank of hard wood, the solid white oak timber twelve inches thick, then through another two and a half-inch hard-oak ceiling, and lastly penetrated the head of an oil cask, where it stuck, not a drop of the oil having escaped?'"
What Shall We Get This Time?
Courtesy of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries.
Here's a New One, Boys!
The veteran collector of the Woods Hole Station is seen in the foreground of both pictures.