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pole and drives the fish away from the gap between the two sides of the net.  The net is hauled in apparently partly by machine, partly by hand & when it is gathered in the row boat comes up on the other side & the fish are [[image - net]] picked out of the net & thrown into the rowboat.  
Then when the boats from Tacoma come to buy the fish they are counted aloud as they are thrown in one at a time - a shining silver fish - from the top of the bluff above.  When it rains the men have oil skins, & they wear oilskin aprons for the wet part of the work in all weathers.  The Olympia boat plies back & forth in sight.  Enormous fern fronds in the woods tho dead now hint at the luxurious growth of summer.
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To be ready for a telegraphic call from Vernon, I came in to the Tacoma Hotel the day before Thanksgiving.  The hotel was crowded with Shriners (some with dress suit & red fez with a crescent!) & between the trains & the late hours of the Shriners & the noisy drunken talk of my next door neighbour who was put to bed at midnight by a [[insertion]] Jap. [[/insertion]] bell boy, the night was not a peaceful one.  The shouts & excitations & loud talk of the beast next day got too much in the mg. & I changed my room.

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