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 pig fishing is one of the chief sports in the Sandwich Islands. What do you use for bait, Jim?"

Jim, however, worked on stolidly, finally surveying the crude nets he had constructed, with much satisfaction.

"Now I show you how to catch um li'le pig," he observed with a grim smile.

With an ax he cut three formidable looking clubs from a tree, and then leading the way to a clump of bushes some distance from their camp he tied the nets loosely across the entrances to the various runways.

"Lie still," he ordered. "Bimeby we hear him say 'grump-grump' maybe p'raps."

Each holding one of the murderous clubs, they squatted on the ground. There seemed to be perfect stillness, such as one can find on an isle in the Pacific on a calm day. Not even the soft soothing sound of a ripple on the sea shore reached them. Once or twice the melancholy call