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...film begins as the clipper sets out to sea. First off, the crew must "scoop" for "chum," i.e., make a haul for anchovetas, to be used for bait. When at last the net makes a full purse, the ship heads for fishing grounds. A few days later, the porpoise shoal and the water birds fluster wildly overhead-the signs of tuna below...
...days on end, the tough little clipper rides the fierce chubasco, as lightning sprouts like trees on the horizon, and the towering waves break over her stout prow. Then south to the Galapagos, "the ash heap of the world." Off these volcanic isles another scoop is made for bait. On the ledges of the overhanging rocks, the huge iguana rustle, and at night a volcano spews its fairy fires. Day after day no fish, and days become weeks. The ship sets course for Peru, and there, after 13 weeks at sea, the big latch is made at last...
...dolphin give the cue, the clipper makes its play. The surface of the school, a shimmer of young fish, breaks open like taut skin as the ancients of the tribe come hurtling up to take the bait. The men in the scuppers see them coming and join forces for the battle-three poles now are roped to the same hook, and still the big backs bow and the heavy arms knot as 300-lb. tuna fly into the back troughs with each heave...
Pardon for Jack. On the inaugural train to Washington, it was just like Tad to bait dignitaries with the query "Do you want to see Old Abe?" and then gleefully point out some total stranger. To Tad and Willie, the Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer of the Lincoln family, the White House was a huge rumpus room. They found the central bell system and sent the White House staff scurrying up and down stairs in a dither over the President's safety. The "dear codgers" built a sled in the attic out of an old chair, with a copy...
...edge of a slash-pine grove. Or a 15-lb. turkey gobbler hurtling into a charge of No. 6 shot, and then falling through the Spanish moss on the oaks onto the dry palmettos below. Or the catfish, at his grandfather Brandon's farm, that stole his bait, sneaking off to its lair. Or how hot it was picking corn in the August...