The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-11-15
Natural History for Small People.

The whale is generally spoken ofby poets
us 1.-The monster of the deep" Doyou see
how lively he is The whale is the most
sportive fish under water. The shark can
take Joke and crack one, but for broad,
riifling humor the whale knocks all the
funny almanacs into slivers.
How long is the whale
Some whales are eighty feet long, but if
you ever see one, and rush into printing
office to have an item built on the fact, it
would be better tor your children if you
said that the whale was forty feet long
The world can forgive a man for exagger.
ating the facts of tornado. freshct or
steamboat disaster, but the man who lies
about fish is gone up from that moment
That's the reason why no true, good man
ever goes fishing.
"Can whale crack hickory nut with
his teeth ~
He can, but he doesn't fool around with
such trifes. When be opens his mouth to
bite he prefers to crack q whale-b boat or
bald headed sea captain from Nantucket
one of those tough old fellows who
come back from the Arctic seas and tell
about seeing Jour moons in the sky at
once"
us q whales mouth as large as the Cap
itol building at Washington"
"That's according to whose book on
whaling you have confidence in. Some
writer's can open q whales mouth wide
enough to chuck in most any building,
while Others WHO want to go to heaven
state that no whale could gulp down a
street car without losing some OF his teeth
The trouble is that no newspaper man ever
finds time to GO off on cruise after whales,
and therefore can secure no reliable figures
and statistics"
"How old do whales live to he ?"
"YOu have got us now. We never saw
the same whale over three or four times, or
whether they died of grief over that fact,
or swan away to make new acquaintance,
we could never find out. When man
tells you that II whale lives to be seven,
seventy or seven hundred years old, ask
him to submit the proofs"
"Where are whales mostly found ?"
"In the water. They never come to land
until tired oflife and ready for a change"
GLOW fast can they swim? 2"
"That is another disputed point A
Nantucket captain says he saw one speed
ing at the rate of thirty miles an hour,
"hiiS % 4NS" oSbiOiV Soptoih sdh OHC ~
ing at the rate of mile a minute. Horace
Greedy could have settled the dispute in
his 'Recolections OF Busy Life, but he
seems to have avoided doing so. How
ever, if you are ever chased by whale, it
will be prudent for you too make 100 miles
an hour, you can"
"Do whales prefer sheled corn to corn
on the cob 2"
mo. No well regulated whale would
be in the least put out after swallowing a
wagon load of cobs."
"Do whales fight with each other ?"
"Not often. If whale comes fooling
around, clustering what lie can do and
putting on airs, he is generally rolled in
the mud to take the conceit out of him
but, as q rule, the whale prefers to rest his
nose on coral reef and give himselfup tc
planning the social elevation af the walru'
and the squid."
us it cruel to harpoon a whale9"
at is. There should be a law obligine
the whalers to catch their victims with
noosed rope and stupeiy them with chic
reform. Continue to be good boy, and b,
glad that you are not whale"