RL SS TS BEN og DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON The Nebular Equipage. “Who maketh the clouds His cheriot.”—Ds, 304: 3 Brures are constructed so as to Jook down, Those earthly creatures thut have wings, when they rise from the earth still look down, and the eagle wearches for mice in the grass, and the raven for carcasses in the fleld, Man alone is made to look up. To induce him to look up, God makes the sky a picture-gallery, a Dusseldorf, a Louvre, a Luxembourg, a Vatican, that eclip. ses all that German or French or Ital- ian art ever accomplished. But God has fatled to attract the attention of most of us by THE SCENERY OF THE SKY. We go nto rapiures over flowers in the soil, but have little or no appreciation of the “*morning-glories” that bloom on the wall of the sky at sunrise, or the dablias in the clouds at sunset, We are in ecstasies over a gobelin tapestry or a ULridal veil of rare fabric, or a snowbank of exquisite curve, but see not at all. or see without emotion, the bridal veils of mist that cover the face of the Catskills, or the swaying up- holsiery around the couch of the dying day. or the snowbanks of vapor piled up in the heavens, Mv text bids us lift our chin three of four inches and open the two telescopes which under the forehead are put on swivel easily turned upward, and see that the clouds are not merely uninter- esting signs of wet or dry weather, but that they are embroidered canopies of shade, that they are the conservatories of the sky, that they are thrones of pomp, that they are crystalline bars, that thicy are paintings in water color, that they are the angels of the mist, that they are great cathedrals of light with troad aisles for angelic feet to walk through and bow at altars of am- ber ard alabaster, that they are the mothers of the dew, that they are lad- ders for ascending and descending glor- ies, Cotopaxis of belching flame, Nia- garas of color, that they are the mas- terpieces of the Lord God Almightg. The clouds aro A FAVORITE BIBLE SIMILE, and the sacred writers bave made much use of them, hung on a cloud in concentric bands the colours of the spectrum, saying: *'I do set my bow in the cloud.” As a mountain is sometimed entirely hidden by the vapors, so, says God, *‘I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy trans gressions.”’ David measures the divine goodness, and found it so high he apost- rophized: **Thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.”” As sometimes there are thousands of fleeces of vapor scur- rying across the heavens, so, says Isa- iah, will be the converts in the millen- nium *‘as clouds and as doves,” Asin the wet season no sooner doas the sky clear thau there comes another obscura- tion, so, says Solomon, oue ache or ail- meu: of old folks has no more than gone another pain comes ‘‘as clouds return after the rain,” A column of illumined cloud led the Israelites across the wilderness, In the book of Job, Elihu, watching the clouds, could not understand why they did not fall, or why they did not all roll together, the laws of evaporation and condensation then not being under- stood, and he cries out: **Dost thou know the balancing of the clouds?” When I read my text it suggests to me that the clouds are the Creator’s equi- ti wiiali wheels, and the tongue of the cloud is the pole of the celestial vehicle, and the winds are the harnessed steeds, and God is the Royal occupant and driver “who maketh the clouds His chariot,” “*To understand the Psalmist’s mean- ing in the text, you must know that the chariot of old was sometimes of which were fastened to the axle by stout pins, and the awful defeat of serted a linch-pin of wax instead of a linch-pin of fron. All of the six hun- dred chariots of Pharaoh says: “The Lord took off their wheels,”’ Look at the long flash of “olomon’s fourteen hundred chariots, and the thirty thousand chariots of the Philis- tines, If you have ever visited tie buildings where a king or queen keeps the COACHES OF STATE, as 1 have, you know that Kings and Sucuis have great varieties of turnout. he keeper tells you: “This 1s the state carriage, and used only on great occasions,” “This is the coronation carriage, and in it the king rode on the day he took the throne.”” “In this the queen went to open Parliament.” “This is the coach in which the Czar and the Sultan rode on she occasion of their visit.” All costly and tessellated and enriched and emblazoned are they, and when the driver takes the reins of the ten white horses in his hands, and amid mounted troops. and bands in full force sounding the national air, the splendor starts, and rolls on under arches ene twined with and amid the huzza of hundreds ousands of - tators, the scene is memorable, at my text puts all such occasions to in- significance, as it represents the King of the Universe coming to the door of His palace, and the gilded vapors of the heavens rolling up to His feet, and, He, stepping in and taking the reins of the grlloping winds in His hand, starts in tetuaphal ride unller the arches of sapphire, over atmospheric highways of opal and chrysolite, the clouds His chanot. My hearers, do not think that God belitties Himself when He takes such conveyance. Do you know that the clouds are among the most WONDROUS AND MAJESTIC THINGS in the whole universe? Do you know that they are flying lakes aud rivers and oceans? God waved His hand over them and said: “Come up higher!” and they obeyed the mandate. That cloud, instead of being, as it seems, a of a few yards seven or eight ntain, from pot make a fragile or unworthy repre- sentation of God fu the text, when he : spoke of the elouds as His chariot. But { as I suggested in the case of an earthly king, He has His morning-cloud char- jot and Mis evening-cloud chariot —the cloud chariot in which He rode down to Sinai to open the law, and the cloud chariot in which He rode down to Tabor to honor the gospel, and the cloud chariot in which He will come to judgment, When He rides cut in HIS MORNING CHARIOT at this season, about 6 o'clock, he puts golden coronets on the dome of cities, and silvers the rivers, and out of the dew makes a diamond ring tor the fing- ers of every grass blade, and bids good cheer to invalids who in the night said: “Would God it were morning!” From this morning cloud chariot He distri- butes light—light for the earth aud light for the heavens, light for the land and light for the sea, great bars of it, great wreathes of it, great columns of it, a world full of itt IIail Him in worship as every morning Ile drives out In His chariot of morning cloud, and cry with David: “My voice shalt thou bear in the morning, in the morn- ing will I direct my prayer unto thee and look up.” I rejoice in these Scrip- ture ejaculations: “Joy cometh in the morning.” “My soul waiteth for thee more than they that watch for the morning.” “If I take the wing of the morning.”” **The eyelids of the morn- ing.” “The morning cometh.” “Who is she that looketh forth as the morn- ing,” ‘His going forth is prepared as the morning.” “As the morning spread on the mountains.’”’ “That thou shouldest visit him every morn- ing.” throws from His chariot throws us the morning! HIS EVENING-CLOUD CHARIOT, It is made out of the saffron and the gold and the purple and the orange and the vermilion and upshot flames of the sunset, That is the place where the splendors that have marched through the day, having ended the procession, throw down their torches and set the heavens on [ite when of ithe day when the atmosphere ¥ city with its twelve man- us stones, from foundation middle and on up to the coping of amethyst, At that hour, without any of Elisha's we 3 of fire, and banners of fire, and ships of fire, and cities of fire, seems as if the last When God makes these chariot let us all kneel Another day past, what have we done with it? Auoother day dead, and this i8 its gorgeous catafalque., Now is the time for what David called the *‘even- ing sacrifice,” or Daniel called the “*evening oblation.” Oh! oh! what a chariot made out of evening cloud! Have you hung over the taffrail on the cloudy vehicle roll over the pavements of a calm summer sea, the wheels drip- ping with the magnificence? Have you from the top of Den Lomond or the Cordilleras or the Berkshire hills seen the day pillowed for the night, and yet had no aspiration of praise and homage? Oh, what a rich God we have that He can put oun one evening sky pictures that excel Michael Angelo's “last ation of the Magi,” and whole galleries next evening put on the same sky some- thing that excels all that the Raphaels and the Titians and the Rembrandts and the Corregios and the Leonardo da Vincis ever executed, and then draw God must of clouds How rich new chariot to be exhibited! be to have a every evening! jut the Bible tells us that our King also has HIS BLACK CHARIOT, “Clouds and darkness,’’ we are told, “are round about him.” That chariot is cloven out of night, and that night is When He rides forth in that tend Him. Then let the earth tremble, Then let nations pray. Again and again He has ridden forth in that chariot of black clouds, across England and France and Italy and Russia and America, and over all nations. That which men took for the sound of can- nonading at Sebastopol, at Sedan, at Gettysburg, at Tel-el-Kebir, at Bunk- er Hill, were only the rumblings of the black chariot of the Almighty. Aye, it is the chariot of storm-cloud armed with thunder-bolts, and neither man nor angel nor devil nor earth nor hell nor heaven can resist Him. On those boulevards of blue, THIS CHARIOT NEVER TURNS out for anything. Aye, no ons aise drives there, Under one wheel of that chariot, Babylon was crushed, and Baalbeck fell dead, and the Roman Empire was prostrated, and Atlantis, a whole continent that ounce connected Europe with America, sank clear out of sight, so that the longest anchor of ocean steamer cannot touch the top of I's highest mountains, The throne of the Cemsams was less than a pebble under the right wheel of this chariot, aud the Austrian despotism less than a snow- flake under the left wheel. And over destroyed worlds on worlds that chariot bas rolled without a jar or jolt, This black chariot of war-cloud rolled up to the northwest of Europe in 1812, and four hundred thousand men marched , and only twenty- five thousand out of the four hundred ore or has ever since visited Russia, Aye, the chariot of the Lord is irres- istible, There is only one thing that can balt or turn any of His chariots, ud tliat 48 playel, (AFLs and it has stopped it, w it aro the chariot of black under that wheels would have taken, And our Lord’s chariot has only two wheels and that means Instat reversal, and instant help, and instant deliverance. While the combined forces of the uni« verse in battle array could not stop His black chariot a second, or diverge it an inch, the driver of that chariot says: *Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee.” *‘While they are yet speaking, 1 will hoar.”’ TWO-WHEELED CHARIOT, one wheel justice, and the other wheel mercy. ' A cloud, whether it belongs to the cir- rhus, the clouds that float the highest; or belongs to the stratus, the central ranges; or to the cumulus, the lowest ranges—seems to move slowly along the sky if It moves at all. But many of the clouds go at a speed that a vesti- bule-limited lightning express train would seem lethargie, so swift is the chariot of our God; yea, swifter than the storm, swifter than the light, Yet a child ten years old has been known to reach up, and with the hand of prayer take the courser of that chariot by the bit and slow it up, or stop it, or turn it aside, or turn it back. The boy Samuel stopped it. Elijah stopped it. IHeze- kiah stopped it. Daniel stopped It, Joshua stopped it, Esther stopped It, Ruth stopped it. Hannah stopped it, Mary stopped it. My father stopped it, My mother stopped it. My sister stop ped it, We have in our Sabbath- schools children who again and again and again have stopped it. Notice that these old-time chariots, which my text uses tor symbol, had what we would call a high dash-board at the front, but were open behind. And the king would stand at the dash- board and drive with his own hands, And I'am glad that He, whose chariot | the clouds are, DRIVES HIMSELF, He does not let natural law drive, for i natural law is deaf. Ile does not i let fate drive, for fate is merciless, | But our Father King drives Himself, {and He puts His loving band on the | reins of the flving coursers, and He has a loving ear open to the ery of all who want to catch His attention, Oh, I am 50 glad that wy Father drives, and | never drives too fast, and never drives | too slow, and never drives off the preci- pice, and that He controls by a bit that i mever breaks, the wildest and most rag- | ing circumstances, I heard captain who put out with {| with a large number of passengers from i Buffalo, on Lake Erie, very | the season and while there ice, When they were well | captain saw, to his horror, that the { was closing in on him from | and he saw no way out from destruc- tion and death, He called into the ! cabin the passengers, and all the crew { that could be spared from their posts, and told them | lost unless God interposed, and although ihe was not a Christian man, he said: “Let us pray,” and they all knelt 1 ASKING GOD To COME | for their deliverance. They went back i to the deck, and the man at the wheel | shouted: “All right, cap'n, it's blow- | ing not’ by nor*west, now.” While the | prayer was going on fn the cabin the { wind changed and blew the ice out of ithe way. The mate asked: “Shall I { put on more sail, cap'n?” “Nol” re- sponded the captain. “Don’t touch her.” Some one else is managing this ship.” Oh, men and women, shut in all sides by icy troubles and misfor- tunes, in earnest prayer put all your affairs in the hands of God, You will come out all right, Some one else is MANAGING THE sHIp! It did not merely happen so that when Leyden was bemeged, and the Duke of Alva felt sure of his trinmph, suddenly the wind turned, and the swollen waters compelled him to stop the siege, and the city was saved. God that night drove along the coast of the Nether. | lands in a black charriot of storm-cloud. { It did not merely happen so that Luther | Tose from the place where he was sitting just in time to keep from being crushed was much tt out, the very spot. Had he not escaped where would bave been the Reforma tion? It did not merely happen so that Columbus was saved from drowning by an oar that was floating on the waters. Otherwise, who would have unveiled America? It did not merely happen so that when George Washington was in Brooklyn a great fog settled down over all the place where this church stands, and over all this end of Long Island, and that under that fog he and his army escaped from the clutches of Generals Howe and Clinton. In a chariot of mist and cloud that God of American Independence rode along here, On that pillow of consolation I put down my bead to sleep at night, On that solid foundation I build when I see this nation in political paroxysm every four years, not because they care two cents about whether it 1s high tariff, or low tariff, or no tariff at all, but only whether the Democrats or the Republicans shall have the salaried offices. Yea, when European nations are holding their breath, wondering whether Russia or Germaay will launch a war that will incarnadine a continent, I fall back on the FAITH THAT MY FATHER DRIVES, Yea, I cast this as an anchor, and plant this as a column of strength, and 1ift this as a telescope, and bui this as a fortress, and propose without any rturbation to launch upon an un nown future triumphant in the fact that my Father drives, Yes, He drives very near, know that many of the clouds you see in summer are far off, the bases of some of them five miles above the earth, Nigh on the highest peaks of the Andes, travellers have seen clouds far hi than where they were standing. Gay Lussac, after he had risen in a n twenty-three thousand feet, saw clouds above him, But there are clouds that touch the earth and discharge their rain; and, the clouds out of which God's is made may sometimes be far away, often they are close by, and they our sho and our homes, and they touch us all over. 1 have TWO RIDES THAT THE LORD TOOK in two different chariots of ES RES — A ————_e~ God drove down. to the top of a terrible crag fifteen hundred feet high, now called Jebel-Musa, then called Mount Sinai, and he stepped out of His chariot among the split shelvings of rock. The mountain shook as with an ague, and there were ten volleys of thunder, each of the ten emphasizing a tremendous “Thou shalt,?”’ or “Thou shalt not,” Then the Lord resumed His chariot of cloud ahd drove up the hills of heaven, They were dark and portentous clouds that made that chariot at the giving of the law, But one day He took another ride, and this time down to Mount Tabor; the clouds out of which His chariot was made, bright clouds, roseate clouds, illumined clouds, and music rained from all of them, and the music was a mingling of carol and chant and triumphal march: “This is My be- loved Son in whom I am well pleased.” Transfiguration chariot! “Oh,” say hundreds of you, “I wish black one that brought the Lord to Jebel-Musa, at the giving of the law, and he white one that brought Him down to Tabor!” Never mind, you will see something grander than that, and it will be a mightier mingling of the som- bre and the radiant, and the pomp of it will be such that the chariots in which Trajan and Diocletian and Zenobla and Cesar and Alexander and all the conquerors of all the ages rode will be unworthy of mention; and what stirs me the most is, that when He comes in that chariot of cloud and goes back, He will ask you and me to ride with Him both ways, How de I know that THE JUDGMENT CHARIOT tionl:7: clouds,” “Behold He Oh, He will cometh not then now. He is going to bring along with In- the of “Behold thousand spiration cometh saints,’ says: with ten escort of char chariot, but ehariols before Him to clear chariots on ether side of Him. Per. jets and patrigrehs of the SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. Buwpay, Ocronen 21, 1888, The Stones of Memorial. LESSON TEXT. Josh. 4: 10-24. Memory verses, 20.22 LESSON PLAN. Toric oF THE QUARTER: Promises Fulftlled, GOLDEN TEXT FOR THE QUARTER: God's po : : There railed not aught of any good thing which the Lord had spoke n unto the house of Israel ; all came to puss, —Josh, 21: 15. § Lesson Toric: Commemorating the | Entrance. i 1. The Entrance Effected, va, 10.13, 2. Tne Waters Heleased, va, 14-15 8. The Memorial Erected, va, 19-24, fesson Outline: ° GoLbeEN TEXT: Then ye shall let | ove 4:29 Dany Home READINGS: M.—Josh, 4 : 10-24, ating the entrance, -Josh, 4 : 1-9. erected. W.—Deut. 28, Remember- ing the days of old. T.—Deut, 32 : 20-47, ing the days of old. F.—Josh, 24 : 1-25, review, N.—Psa. Warnings, 8S. ~—Psa, 105 ;: 23-45. memorated. Commemor- | T. Memorial stones | 0% « 7 “it. 4” Remember- | Joshua's final | 95 1-11, Praises Mercies com- LESSON ANALYSIS, I. THE ENTRANCE EFFECTED. I. The Waiting Priests : The priests in the midst of Jordan (10). : Command the priest still in Jordan The priests. . . .stood firm on dry in Jordan (Josh, 3 : 17). The place where the priests’ firm (Josh. 4 : 3). slood . Yeshall iN, stand Josh, 3 : B), nd the priests. . . . that they « up Oui The people hasted and charioted—Abrabaimn and sid David and His first coming. the central chariot apos mariyrs, who, in the same or one Ez ade lead SEA 163 foretold who On who went up in chariot of fire, now rear of the céstral chariot multitudes of later days and of our own time, who have tried to serve the Lord —giirselves, 1 hope, among them. *'Be- companionship, we want to come wilh myriads of | flowers, Now the trimpet is given, and his scarred bands waves the signal, and into line for glorious ascent, Drive on! Drive up! Chanols of cloud abead of the King, chariots of clouds follow. ing thegKing. Upward and apast starry hosts, and through immensities, and across infinliundes, higher, higher, high- er, unio the gates, the shining gates, Lift up your heads, ye Gates! for Bim who makewn the clouds His chariot,and who, through uplifting grace, invites us to mount and ride with Him! A Chinese-Prussian., A capture made by the Viennese po- lice has brought to light the extraordin- ary ancestry of a very curious prisoner, He 1s a lieutenant in the Prussian army, charged with swindling on an extensive scale—-a Prussian subject with a Prus- sian name, but with a Chinaman for his father. On the charge sheet his name is entered as Assing. The name of his father was A-Seng, and for three years, from 1817 to 1820, he lived at St, Helena, acting as valet de chambre to Napoleon 1. When the Emperor died A-Seng came to Europe. Frederick William [11 was then King of Russia and the Chinaman entered his service, married in Berlin and was a great favorite of the King, who became god- father of his children, He was decor. ated, and died at Potsdam in 1836, hold- ing the post of sergeant-valet in the royal service. One son entered the army and served init with distinction, He is the prisoner against whom this course of swindling is charged. He did not re- main long in the service, and scon after his withdrawal a little brocure was pub- lished, attributed to him under his name, now Prussianized into Assing. The treatise attracted a great deal of attention, It was a violent attack he Jericl The Lo unt we were passed over (Jo Cian pass 111. in When ail the people were ed over ! } All Israel Jos) pass «dl over passed over on dry gi Al ii the Jon ian o OS1L, « Jordan or land (Josh. 4 py » die Jordan, and came unto 24 : 11). wt Jericho (Josh, 1 1 in 1 xxl in th Obedient midst y Lr0d; “The priests, 0 of Jordan.” (1) 4 (2) Caring for the ark: (3 back the waters, - “The people vv or, *? gr ph Holding hasted and passed 1) Through Jordan: (2) On ound: (3) Into Canaan. 3. “I'he ark of the Lord passed over,” {1} The symbol of God's presence; (2 The defense of God's re spe . (3) i The pledge of God's protection. II. THE WATERS RELEASED, : ars The priests... .out of the midst of waters of Jordan shall be cut of (Josh, 3 : 13). waters. .. . ow g:16.\. He the Red Sea also, an was dried up (Psa. 106 : 9), Jordan was driven back (Psa. 114 : 3). 11. The Waters Returning: The waters of Jordan returned their place (18), The sea returned to its strength (Exod. 14 : 24). waters returned, and covered the chariots { Exod, 14 : 28). Thou carriest them away as with a flood {Psa. $0 : 5). waters covered (Psa, 106 : 11). inl one up { Josh, rebuked unto their adversaries Jordan. .. . went over all its banks, as | aforetime (18), Jordan overfloweth all its banks all the time of harvest (Josh, 3 : 15). Jordan. ...had overflown all its banks 1 Chron, 12 : 15). When the great waters overflow they shall not reach unto him (Psa, 32 : 6). The rivers....shail not overflow thee (Isa. 43 : 2). 1. “On that day the Lord magnified Joshua.” (1) In whose sight? (2) By what means? (3) To what ex- | tent? (4) For what purpose? 2. “They feared him, as they feared Moses.” (1) The nature of their fear; (2) The causes of their fear; {3) The results of their fear. “The waters of Jordan returned unto their places,” (1) The natural conditions of Jordan; (2) The su- pernatural conditions of Jordan, IL THE MEMORIAL ERECTED, I. A Visible Memormalk: Those twelve stones....did Joshua set up in Gilgal (20), Jacob. . . . took the stone and set up for a pillar (Gen, 28 : 18), This heap be witness, and the pillar be witness Gen, 31 : 52). A covering of the altar: to be a wemor- ial (Num, 16 : 39, 40). These stones s hall be for a memorial ove dor ever (Josh, 4 : 7), IL A Natural Inguiry: Your children shall ask,.... What mean these stones? (21). Your children shall say, .... What mean yo by this service? (Exod. 12: 20). Thy son asketh thee,....saying, What is this? (Exod, 13: 14.) Ask thy father, and ho will shew thee {Dent, 82: 7 : Your children ask,.... What mean ye by these stones? (Josh, 4 : 6), IL A Satisfeotory Reply: aL same over this Jordan on dry (22). For the Lord your God dried up the waters (Josh, 4 : 28), 3 it That they may fear the Lord your God for ever { Josh, 4 : 24). When all the kings. ... heard, hearts melted (Josh. 5: 1). 1. “What man these stones?” (1) The stones belield; (2) An inguiry raised: (35) A history recalled, , “larael came over this Jordan on dry land.” {1} A marvelous fact; (2; A divine interposition; {3 A trinmphal journey, “The hand of the Lord, . mighty.”? (1) Evidences of its might: (2) Measures of its might: (3) Achievements of its might, a ———————— LESSON BIBLE READING, WONDERS IN THE WATERS, Inthe creative v 10. 20. 21 ’ id their it 18 (xen, Israel crossing the, 17:4: 1 {Jonah 1:4, Matt, 8: 23- waters (Matt, | Pea, 107 : ¢ SURROUNDINGS, the passage of the host of | yage The tempest stil the led LESSON After hua was commanded to provide sic (Josh, 4: 1-4}; the can command is rec narral the « t in the » r & (VE, O-B), 48 18 Also monument Vion pla $ Wi in the bed of t Jordan, The place bed of the € Pa ¥R OF Li i as in the Al, "On ly identified with a col tically the (rilgall, “Men Palestine The time Tr firs $88 0 FEL PROG LOK] jatrachian as He Appcoa: Classical Literature. The It 18 surprising that so written in late years of must remember it wor ously in the economy « At differs has been 3 ed as a divinity by nations in the at other times has been employes divinity as the scourge of idolat: mankind; the island of Cyrene was garded as a cursed and blighted spot, because for many centuries frogs would not abide there, but when imported A PER 13 } pe | vii vend id began the frog has fig nt Limes Le swith other shores-—-they could no more be reconciled than could the hares who, as Aristotle says, when brought 10 toward Aristophanes wrote a play about frogs and so did the older poet, Homer, Plin treats at length of the frog, and in “‘Banqueter’s Athenmnos’’ is pleased to recount wondrous tales thereof. When St. Patrick blessed memory!) ex- pelled reptiles from Erin he wisely ex- cepted the frog, who, even at that early time, was highly respected, both for the pleasing excellence of his vocal powers and for the exceeding succulence of his flesh, and we all know that from the beauty of its song the frog is not unfre- called nowadays the Irish The old English poets beld the frog in high esteem. Chaucer * v {of “Ye frogge yi did laye In ye mersche syngyng full swote alles night et daye,”” and subsequently he speaks of *‘ye “The learned Dr. Thorpe tells in his **Northern Mythology’ that nat the frog is still reverenced by cer- power, and most accur=ve of elymologists, surmises rived from tlie name of the Norse god- dess Frigga. being the past, perfect or preterit of that name, regularly conjug- ated, In 1862 Dick Yates was visiting Colonel Phocion Howard, of Darataria frog farm, and Howard asked him if he had ever tasted frogs’ legs, “Yes, twice,” smd Dick. “latea pair at Belleville last summer.” “And where else?” “Nowhere else?” “But you said you had tasted them twice,” “And so 1 have; once as they went down and the second time as they came up.” The Bite ofa Bluefish, Did you ever hook a bluefish? Well, it's about the same thing as getting hold of the biggest kind of a pickerel in fresh water, You go out in a sailboat, you understand, and you want a pair of heavy gloves on. The trolling line goes whizzing out toa distance of Afty or seventy-live feet, and the boat tacks back and for:h while you troll. You can’t mistake the bite of a biuefish or a whale. Ie bites barder than a whale, He doesn’t wait to wonder and meditate and figure up on probable profit or loss, but he grabs bait and book like a fish determined to carry the boat off and turn its crew over to the sharks, There is an unwritten law which pre- vents anyone from extending help, You must fish or cut bu, gait hin in or loso him. When the first bluefish struck my 7g s£ £2 £ A
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