HE THOUGHT TO CATCH A WHALE
Fishermen's tales have always been regarded as » joke, but it really seems as if at last a follower of Izaak Walton has a record story to tell. For ha caught a whale—or very nearly. It was Simple Simon who went a-fishing in his mother’s pail, hoping against hope, says the old rhyme, to catch a whale. A modem- version of this story is of a Cape Town angler who was fishing off the False Bay coast when a whale about 60ft long rolled lazily’ in shore. When it was no more than a few feet away the angler, perhaps more for fun than anything else, baited his hook with a hair-sized piece of meat, and threw out his line. The whale swallowed the bait, and to the fisherman’s astonishment he found he had hooked the monster. It was a great catch—until the whale dived, snapped the line, and vanished.
“Hello' i eicr is ill, and can’t Come to .school to-day!” “Who is speaking?” “My father!”
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Evening Star, Issue 22893, 26 February 1938, Page 8
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171HE THOUGHT TO CATCH A WHALE Evening Star, Issue 22893, 26 February 1938, Page 8
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