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When the dogfish came the men pulled up their anchors and rowed a mile or so away , for where the dogfish pursues all others fly . He has the shape and traits of his merciless giant brother , the tiger-shark , with the added menace of a horn full of poison in the middle of his back instead of a dorsal fin ; an evil , curved horn , the thrust of which can be nearly fatal to a man . The bottom of the dory became covered with a flooring of liquid silver bodies that twined together and rolled with the roll of the dory . At five o'clock Code wound his line on the reel -LRB- he usually used two at a time , but one had been plenty with such fishing -RRB- , and started to pull for the distant _ Charming Lass _ . He was now fully five miles from her , and his nearest neighbor was Bill Kent , three miles away . All hands were drawing in toward her , for they knew they must take a quick mug-up and then dress down until the last cod lay in his shroud of salt . The schooner lay to the northeast of Schofield , and as he bent to his work he did not see a strange , level mass of gray that advanced slowly toward him .