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Tnere was a man on the wharf, posed in the statue-cast of a wrestling Roman gladiator, with the contorted muscles and sinews standing in bold relief on his biceps and breast, and the beads of sweat rolling down his anxiously-furrowed brow. There was a rod in his hands bent to the tension of a bow ready to drive its barbed shaft feather deep into the neck of some hydra or centaur. There was a line, tautened to rigid tension, reaching seaward. There was a reel singing and screaming like the whistle of a recently awakened policeman to tell the world of a well guarded beat.
There was a whirlpool of wraith and foam a hundred feet away in the sea, from whose boiling vortex a hugh marine monster, white and dazzling, and with savagely shaking head, suddenly leaped, and then line, rod, and angler all simultaneously flew back uhstrung, and the submarine steam navigator steered his powerful vessel onward, with a steel fishhook in his bbw and a few fathoms of line in his wake.
"Holy Moses! what a silverfish!" gasped the baffled Mr. H©0, who immediately lowered his voice to the tone of a confidential conversation with Beelzebufe as to his future frying of all silverfish, and of this one in particular.
The party wound up its day's sport with a string of 63 mackerel and several other uncounted varieties of sea fish, and no silverfish.
Future of Mississippi City
Mississippi City is certain to be developed, at an early day, into a great lumber-shipping port.
Its present attractions of a fertile soil surrounding it, a fine summer and winter climate existing here, the wonderful healthiness of its site, and its splendid bathing, hunting, and fishing facilities are enough to stimulate its steady growth into the favor of thousands who annually, for health or pleasure, seek the benefits of the glorious Southern climate and the diversions afforded by a breezy Southern sea.
This resort is now frequented by many £i.eu't.her;rL,planters, with their families, and by summer residents from the leading Southern cities. Its hotel and boarding-house keepers are in communication, at present, with Northern centers of population with reference to the subject of the number of Northern tourists they can entertain and the quality and cost of the attractions and the living to be provided.
Source:	Sixth	chapter	of	"THE	GULF	COAST"	letters	written	for
the New Orleans "Timises-Democrat" by Mr. R. A. Wilkinson in 1386 and published by the Passenger Department Louisville & Nashville R. R.
’Historic New Orleans Collection'
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