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a fish pirate and to be likened to
an old crab by a lousy old fish was
hard to stomach. Olb crab, in~
deed! 1 lmve always prided my
self on my personal appearance;
in the morning the first thing I do
after I get out of bed is to dip my
fingers into the water in the wash
basin and rub it on my nose and
chin. I even let a lock of my hair
grow long enough to reach across
the bald spot on the top of my
aead, and I always considered my
self a favorite among the young
flappers in my neighborhood. The
lousy old shrub; if I could get my
clutches on him I would take him
home—to Hardstretch; gaff, pugh,
slash and hornswoggle him and
make him respect an old Sour
dough fisherman in the future.
His threat of putting me in the
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jail in Unga he will surely carry
out if I cannot make him believe
that I, in some obscure place, can ;
get a few salmon within the law.
So I asked him if he was well ac
quainted along the mainland coast.
“Yes,” he said, “I know the main
land coast hetter than you do.
When I waa a tiny little kid, I came
down a river on the mainland to
gether with thousands of my bro
thers and sisters. We had all kinds
of fun dodging trout, ducks and
seagulls, and many more of our
* marine enemies; we traveled back
| and forth along the mainland and
around these islands and we are
now going back, following the same
route—bound for our birthplace in
the aluvial gravel-beds of inland
lakes, and we use neither chart
nor compass, and we never get lost.
You have to go to school for years
to study navigation and astronomy
and must use many different kinds
of instruments in your travels and
even then you get badly lost at
times. You are not nearly as im- j
portant as you think you are; you
imagine yourself to be on the apex i
of creation and that everything is
created for your special use and j
benefit, but the fact is, in the gen- |
oral scheme of things, you don’t j
amount to any more than a dog- .
salmon.”
I realized by then that I could
never fool him by claiming a legal
right to catch any of the fish we :
were taking for a living, so I said:
“I can catch codfish. The law does
not prohibit me from that.”
“No,” he said, “but you cannot j
live from the codfish you catch.
The fish traps have exterminated
the silverhakes, the principal feed
of the codfish on the inshore
banks, consequently very few cod
fish come there to feed, and you
are too poor to buy large power
boats to go off-shore in deep water
to fish, and even if you could get
some codfish you could not sell
them and get enough for them to
pay the freight and salt to cure
them. The Japanese are supply
ing the codfish market for you.”
“But there are other specimens
in the waters a fisherman can live
from, such as star fish, cuttle fish,
sea eggs, crabs and bydarkas, and
on land we have crows, magpies
and gophers; there is no law stop
ping us from killing and eating any
of them that I know of, and you
must admit that a person can sus
tain life on those animals,” I said.
“Why. yes,” he replied, “I sup
pose so.”
, “That clears me of your accusa
tion of being a fish pirate,” I said.
“No, it does not,” he replied.
“You are wearing clothes and it
takes money to buy clothes, and
you cannot make money any other
way than by catching fish to sell.”
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cost us nothing, but the labor of
picking them up from the ground,”
I said. “In the fall when the can
neries close down for the season,
the Chinamen and Kanakas throw
away a lot of clothes they consider
worn out and our women pick them
up, fumigate and wash them and
made respectable looking garments
from them.’*
“That accounts for the different
colored patches I see on your
pants,” he said. “If I were to put
on your coat and run back to the
school of salmon where I belong,
every female salmon in the bunch
would turn tail and run away from
me, and even you, with your bony
joints, would look far better with
out all those raggy clothes on your
body. When the abbreviated style
of flapper skirts was adopted, you
were laughing and yearning with
the rest of your kind; but in your
heart you were tickled almost to
death whenever you saw a well
shaped woman’s leg exposed, and I
am sure you will admit that a wo
man in the nude is one of the
most perfect looking objects in na
ture; almost as perfect looking as
a female salmon.”
I could not dispute any of that.
In my raggy clothes, I must have
looked a fright alongside of his
silvery splendor, and his knowledge j
and philosophy left me almost1
flabbergasted. But I was not done
with him yet; I was to be com
pletely humiliated before I could
get away from him.
“You are,” he said, “talking and
acting, and no doubt, think that
you amount to something, but I am
determined to take some conceit
out of you. If you had a grain of
common sense you would leave the
country or commit suicide. The
‘handwriting on the wall’ is plain
to be read even by a fish, that the
government does not want you
here; they are trying to extermin
ate you by starvation. You fisher
men must be a very undesirable
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class; you cannot find a single
parallel in the history of the world
where a handful of pioneers in a
vast empire, with almost unlimited
resources, were forbidden to live
on the natural products of the j
country, and non-resident capital- 1
ists were given the sole right to
what you sorely need to sustain
life. *
"It is not alone the fish you are
forbidden to live from,” he contin
ued, “but you are shut off from
your only meat supply. If you make
a trip to the mainland in October
or November for a supply of meat
for the winter, like you used to do,
it will take you from two weeks to
one month or more to make the
trip, and what you are allowed to
take will be eaten up long before
you get home and your family will
get nothing but caribou, which
herds are increasing by the thous
ands every year and which are to
be reserved for non-residents, to
be killed for sport and the horns
and the carcasses left on the
ground as feed for wolves and bear.
You are even forbidden to take a
seagull egg to eat when you are .
hungry. In the social scale, you J
are below wolves and grizzly bears; j
they are protected and provided j
for by your government, but you
are to be exterminated by starva
tion. Even as a criminal, you are
hardly worth noticing. A poacher
or fish pirate is on the lowest rung
of the criminal ladder. You have
a long way to go to get up to A1
Capone’s class where you would be
feared and admired, and the upper
political circles where you would
be respected and venerated and
get a mausolem built over your
grave. The trap-tunnel is to be
opened soon so I will have to leave
! you and go through it with the
rest of the school, but the next time
11 meet you I will try to have evi
dence to be able to put you in jail
j where you belong as a fish pirate.”
“Go ahead, you big mutt! To
morrow, by this time, you will be
having a confab with St. Peter,” I
told him as he departed. *
I woke up and found that I had
been dreaming, but that dream I
will never forget. That salmon
spoke the truth in every particular.
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