"The following reads like a tall story, but it is the unembellished truth," writes, a little pathetically, a lady of our acquaintance. And
for it.
such we would go to the stake It should be explained that the lady's garden adjoins a large lagoon, on which she and her husband are wont to amuse themselves boating. On the occasion in question she was paddling about alone, but for her dog being in the boat.
"By the time we reached the banks of the garden again it was fairly dark and hundreds of fire flies were twinkling about among the reeds, I put on a final spurt when all of a sudden there was a jerk which nearly sent me backwards. T'd caught a crab,' I thought, but to my amazement that same crab' was slapping about heavily in the bottom of the boat. The puppy began to bark lustily and as soon as T recovered myself I could see that Thad landed a fish that was worthy of being called a fish. It leapt about with such violence that my one fear was that it should get away and that my experience should zo unbelieved even by my best friends."
Cries for help brought her husband to the shore, the prize was landed and handed over to the conk "who weighed it (after a speedily executed despatch) in our presence, Tt turned the scale at 83Ib. and then I Inia it on a big sheet of paper and traced its outline and measured it. The length was 20} inches on the flat. The colour was brownish, yellowish to almost black. The flesh was very white and exceeding. ly good eating. Our. boy tells us it is called Pei Vu (white fish) and that the Chinese like it very much.""
Now what will Hongkew Park put up against that?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.