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Bikini AtollBikini Atoll is an atoll in one of the Micronesian Islands in the Pacific Ocean. It was a test site of more than 20 hydrogen and atomic bombs.On May 21, 1956 Bikini Atoll was nearly obliterated by the first airborne explosion of a hydrogen bomb. The very faces of the
was stirring in their veins. As the sun gathered strength, and the
the advance of summer, the manner and dress of the crowds upon the
flowers, until, at last, here and there, straw hats appeared and
the alleys and fishing.html">fishing.html">fishing tackle appeared in the windows of the stores.
All his life the man.html">man.html">man.html">man.html">man had been an ardent fisherman. And so, when his
filled with rods and reels and lines and hooks and nets and all things
form, that was already stooped a little, straightened. His listless
his work.
But, less than ever, that afternoon, was the man's heart in his labor.
brain as mechanically did its part, the man himself was not there. He
Yesterdays, the man went fishing.
The boy.html">boy was a very small boy when first he went fishing. And he fished
house. His hook was only a pin, bent by his own fingers; his line, a
rod, a slender branch of willow or a green shoot from one of the trees
down behind the barn; and for bait, those humble friends of boyhood,
found a big one; even.html">even though he did shudder a little as he picked it
he called his bait box! And how the little girl.html">girl shrieked with fear and
crawling things--though many of them did escape into their tiny holes
pulling them out. "Only girls are afraid of worms.html">worms and toads and bugs.
thoughts when conscience pricked him, even as he the worm. "Do worms
laughed, one day, when the little girl asked: "What if some wicked
through the air, kicking and squirming, and drop you into the water
to swallow you like the man in the Bible that mother reads. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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