Excerpt from Uncle Frank's Fish Stories: With Poems of a Fish Flavor 1ing business and entered the plumbing business, as clerk in the office of the L. A. May Co., Lynn, Mass. Continued in the business for eleven years and then located on a farm in Danvers Center. Continued there for seven years when I returned to Lynn and re-entered the printing business for five years, when I came to California. I have been deputy assessor for 8 years. One year I went down to San Pedro for a few days. I was fishing off the coast of Catalina for tuna. I got a bite from a large one that pulled me overboard. I was swallowed by a whale. It was a female whale; she took a notion to me and invited me to stop a few days. I took a room up close to her left eye Where it was light and I could look out and see the stars in the night. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.