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Until this season only a very few big tuna had been taken. The prestige of the Tuna Club, the bragging of the old members, the gossip of the boatmen all tend to make a fisherman feel small until he has landed a big one. Come to think of it, considering the years of the Tuna Club fame, not so very many anglers have captured a blue-button tuna.
Realizing this, I spoke to it gratefully. "You are a heaven-born gift on a night like this," said I, rising up and walking to its side. "I am glad to be of service to you," the Awful Thing replied, smiling at me so yellowly that I almost wished the author of the Blue-Button of Cowardice could have seen it. "It's very good of you," I put in.
You come, I must go; but I go on to say that the stride China has made in commerce is immense, and commerce and wealth are the power of nations, not the troops. Like the Chinese, I have a great contempt for military prowess. It is ephemeral. I admire administrators, not generals. A military Red-Button mandarin has to bow low to a Blue-Button civil mandarin, and rightly so to my mind.
"I've spotted one, too!" I shouted. "The ocean's alive with tuna big tuna!" boomed Captain Dan. "Here we are alone, blue-button fish everywhere and no wind." "We'll watch the fish and wait for wind," I said. This situation may not present anything remarkable to most fishermen. But we who knew the game realized at once that this was an experience of a lifetime.
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