in a of coloured seas we saw the neck fall like a the turn sideways showing the of a white belly and the of a gigantic hind leg or then all sank and sea boiled over it while the mate swam round and round darting her blind head in every direction though we might have feared that she would attack the steamer no power on earth could have drawn any one of us from our places that hour we watched holding our the mate paused in her search we could hear the wash beating along her sides reared her neck as high as she could reach blind and lonely in all that loneliness of the sea and sent one desperate across the as an shell across a pond then she made off to the westward the sun shining on the white head and the wake behind it till nothing was left to see but a little pin point of silver on the horizon we stood on our course again and the with the sea from bow to stem looked like a ship made gray with terror � � � � � we must pool our notes was the first remark from we re three trained journal by ic a of fact � we hold absolutely the biggest on record start fair i objected to this nothing is gained by in when all deal with the same facts so we went to work each according to his own lights triple headed his account talked about our gallant captain and wound up with an allusion to american enterprise in that it was a citizen of that had seen the sea serpent this sort of thing would have the creation much more a mere sea tale but as a specimen of the picture writing of a half people it was very interesting took a heavy column and a half giving and and the whole list of the crew e had sworn on oath to testify to his facts there was nothing fantastic or in i wrote three quarters of a column roughly speaking and refrained from putting any into it for reasons that had begun to appear to me was insolent with joy he was going to cable from to the new york world mail his account to america on the same day london with his three columns of loosely and generally the earth see how i work a big when i get it he said is this your first visit to england i asked yes said he you don t seem to appreciate the by ic many beauty of our it s the death of the sea serpent d heavens alive man the biggest thing ever vouchsafed to a paper curious to think that it will never appear in any paper isn t it i said was near me and he nodded quickly what do you mean said k you re enough of a to throw this thing away i sha n t i thought you were a newspaper man i am why i know don t be an ass remember i m seven hundred years your senior and what your may learn five hundred years hence i learned from my about five hundred years ago you won t do it because you can t this conversation was held in open sea where everything seems possible some hundred miles from we passed the needles light at dawn and the lifting day showed the on the green and the awful of england � line upon line wall upon wall solid stone dock and pier we waited an hour in the shed and there was ample time for the effect to in now you face the music the ha goes out to day mail by her and take you to the telegraph office i said i heard gasp as the influence of the land about him him as they say by ic a of fact heath cows a young horse to open country i want to my suppose we wait till we get to london he said by the way had torn up his account and thrown it overboard that morning early his reasons were my reasons in the train began to his copy and every time that he looked at the trim little fields the red and the of the line the blue pencil plunged through the slips he appeared to have the dictionary for ad i could think of none that he had not used yet he was a perfectly sound player and never showed more cards than were sufficient to take the pool aren t you going to leave him a single i asked remember everything goes in the states from a button to a double eagle that s just the curse of it said below his breath we ve played em for so often that when it comes to the golden truth � i d like to try this on a london paper you have first call there though not in the least i m not touching the thing in the papers i shall be happy to leave em all to you but surely cable it home no not if i can make the here and see the sit by ic you won t do it with three column of believe me they don t sit up as quickly as some people i m beginning to think that too does nothing make any in this country he said looking out of the window how old is that new it can t be more than two hundred years at the most um fields too that hedge there must have been for about eighty years labour cheap � eh pretty much well i suppose you d like to try the times wouldn t you no said looking at cathedral might as well try to a hay and to think that the world would take three columns and ask for with illustrations too 