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Ll let me join the Bureau," the boy continued, "because he's wild about
fishing himself. Why, just now, he's down at Santa Catalina, angling for
big game." "Some difference between the Fisheries Bureau and angling for
sport," the agent warned him. "I've been in the business all my life.
But I've never even learned to cast a fly! It's a serious business, and
down in Washington you'll find that the value of the work to the people
of the United States is the chief aim of the Bureau." "It may be
serious, but I should think that there is always something new. And,
anyway," Colin said enthusiastically, "fishes are ever so much more
interesting than animals. There are such heaps of different kinds, too!"
"The interest in work depends on how you look at it," soberly responded
the agent. "Obviously! But don't think the Bureau is experimenting with
every kind of fish in the ocean. There are only a few food fishes or
forms with commercial value that are exploited at all." "But you were
describing to me, only yesterday, the way they handle millions of baby
fishes annually. I've just got to get into the Bureau." "Go ahead, then.
I don't doubt we'll be glad to have you. I've done my best to show you
what you'll have to face," the official declared, "and if you're still
eager for it, why, go in and win. There's always a place somewhere for
the chap who is really anxious to work." At supper that day, the
decision was announced that the revenue cutter would start for Valdez
next morning, and Colin had to scramble around in a hurry to take a last
look at the seals, to get a small crate made for the blue fox pup, which
he was going to send home for his younger brother to look after, and to
put into a small trunk he had got from one of the villagers the few
things he had saved from the wreck and had been able to buy in the
village. The trip down to the Aleutian Islands and through its straits
was a delight to Colin, and he became quite excited when he learned that
the second lieutenant had for years been attached to a revenue