Everyone always made fun of Lanolin Edwards. Lanolin Edwards was unlucky in life. His mother named him Lanolin after she got impregnated by a lanolin door-to-door salesmen! If it wasn't hard enough explaining to people how he got the name "Lanolin", Lanolin also got teased constantly because he was so small.
One year little Lanolin decided to get away from his daily unlucky life and he flew to the Coral Reef for a much needed vacation! It was very beautiful there.
Lanolin decided to go on a guided deep sea fishing trip. The boat wasn't out more than an hour when suddenly Lanolin felt a tremendous tugging on his lucky yellow fishing line!
Lanolin pulled and pulled on the line and the fishing guide kept telling Lanolin to keep reeling in, no matter what!
About 30 minutes passed and finally Lanolin had the fish up to the boat. When Lanolin saw the SIZE of the fish, he nearly fell into the water! The fish was nearly ten times as big as Lanolin!
The crew all helped Lanolin get the fish into the boat and Lanolin was so excited, he was at a loss for words!
Lanolin went to the local taxidermy place on the island and paid to have the huge yellow fish mounted and sent to his bird house back in the states. The taxidermy guys told Lanolin that it DEFINITELY took a BIG man to land a fish of that magnitude!
Lanolin proudly hung the fish on his garden wall so that EVERYBODY could see it, especially Lanolin himself. He even still owned the lucky yellow fishing line that he pulled the fish in on!
Lanolin sat in front of his fish every day and each time he'd remember what the taxidermy guy had said.."It took a BIG man to land a fish like that!" Lanolin smiled, he WAS a BIG guy after all. Nobody ever teased Lanolin again.
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