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He appeared to be quite pleased to sing it, for he came up at once, and sat down to the piano without another word. "Oh, it will amuse you. You will laugh," whispered the two young men, as they passed through the room, and took up an unobtrusive position behind the Professor's back. Herr Slossenn Boschen accompanied himself. The prelude did not suggest a comic song exactly.
After this fish freed himself he was so mad that he charged the boat repeatedly. Boschen fought a big broadbill for eleven hours. And during this fight the swordfish sounded to the bottom forty-eight times, and had to be pumped up; he led the boat almost around Catalina Island twenty-nine miles; and he had gotten out into the channel, headed for Clemente, when he broke away.
Only by going at it so hard, and sticking so long, without any rests, could I gain the experience I wanted. A man to be a great fisherman should have what makes Stewart White a great hunter no emotions. If a lion charged me I would imagine a million things. Once when a Mexican tigre, a jaguar, charged me I But that is not this story. Boschen has the temperament for a great fisherman.
Boschen was years catching his fish. Moreover, though it is hard to get a broadbill to bite and harder to hook him it is infinitely harder to do anything with him after you do get fast to him. A word about Avalon boatmen. They are a fine body of men. I have heard them maligned. Certainly they have petty rivalries and jealousies, but this is not their fault.
The young men said it was the funniest song that had ever been written, and that, if we liked, they would get Herr Slossenn Boschen, whom they knew very well, to sing it. They said nobody could sing it like Herr Slossenn Boschen; he was so intensely serious all through it that you might fancy he was reciting a tragedy, and that, of course, made it all the funnier.
In 1883 the Martin Luther Society was organized by such laymen as Arnold J. D. Wedemeyer, Jacob F. Miller, John H. Tietjen, Jacob A. Geissenhainer, George P. Ockerhausen, Charles A. Schieren, John H. Boschen and others, originally for the purpose of preparing a suitable celebration of the Luther Quadricentennial. In this effort they were successful.
He appeared to be quite pleased to sing it, for he came up at once, and sat down to the piano without another word. "Oh, it will amuse you. You will laugh," whispered the two young men, as they passed through the room and took up an unobtrusive position behind the Professor's back. Herr Slossenn Boschen accompanied himself. The prelude did not suggest a comic song exactly.
The morning following, as we headed out over a darkly rippling sea, some four miles off Long Point, where we had the thrilling strikes from the big swordfish, and which place we had fondly imagined was our happy hunting-ground because it was near shore and off the usual fishing course out in the channel we ran into Boschen fighting a fish.
I vowed I did not care in particular about it, but whenever we ran across a school of tuna I acted like a boy. A good many tuna fell to my rod during these seasons. During the present season, to be exact, I caught twenty-two. This is no large number for two months' fishing. Boschen caught about one hundred; Jump, eighty-four; Hooper, sixty.
Boschen would not fish for anything except tuna or swordfish, and up to this visit to Clemente he had caught many tuna, but only one swordfish, a Xiphias. This is the broadbill, or true, swordfish; and he is even rarer, and certainly larger and fiercer, than the Marlin, or roundbill, swordfish.
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