Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-11-21

petre off of chunk of beef just abaft of
the fore riggin' 'arly one mornin', when
it slipped somehow and down it went.
Before any one could pucker his mouth
the Dustin big shark Pm tellin' you OF,
which he'd follered us for three days
past, shoots out from under the starboard
quarter and swallers the beef. The
doctor was pretty mad, but the old man
raved. He was that close in his calcu-
latin that he was nigh hand to what
some folks would call stingy, and beef
cost money. He swore he'd catch the
shark and eat him, and he did it, too.
We got up the hook and line, and had
look at the chain and swivel to see all
clear, and then we heaves her overheard
with prime bit of pork on. We had
long wait, but the next watch Mister
Shark gobbled the whole caboodle and
tried to make off, but we brought him
up with turn around the cleat where
the starboard main sheet made fast.
Then we got the end of spare coil
Of manila fit for tops'l hallards aft,
turned runnin' bowline into the end OF
it, slipped the moose down over the
sharks nose by workin' him alongside,
and so got the moose around the small OF
his back, which is where his tail sprouts,
T'other end we leads to tail block in
the foreriggin', take it to the capstan'
and walks around to the tune of Bound
Away Ger the Rollin' River, which all
the men could sing beautiful.
"As 1 was sayin', that ere shark
had followed us for three days. We'd
been powerful unlucky, somehow, dur
ing that ERE time with losing things
overheard, all on account of the shark.
First the mate dropped his diddy.box
while knocking the dust out of it on the
rail. Then the second mate had SHED q
rope.fender, which it was solid ball OF
junk, two feet thick, at Duck Hender-
son, and missed him, and over it went.
The old man got out a proper silk uin-
brella what he used to keep his beaver
hat dry with when he went ashore. He
wanted to air the umbrella, but the wind
out of the spanker caught it, and over it
went all spread out. Last of all, the
mate, Mr.. Jameson, had put big
music box on the taffrail while it played
the bornpipe, and the second mate
danced; but q lurch of the vessel dumped
il over, and that were only the night
before the one what I'm telling you OF.
"But we had the shark, and in course
we was little curious to see how things
would be arranged among the innards of
him when we'd hoisted him in and land
ed him on deck. l was for lashin'
open the brute the moment we'd got
his tail chopped of, but the old man
wouldn't have it.
eyer too impetchewus, he said, says
he. "Just keep in mind, you may, spiie
suthin' whats into it. so he takes q
knife and goes it it hisself. He makes a
long slit down the belly and then gradu-
ally makes it deeper, takin' cross.cut
on Mr.. Sharks throat in the meantime.
He worked away till about ready to cut
the inside skin, and then gets hook
into the flesh on each side the slash SC
that he could open it suddint when ne
got the word. When all was ready nc
gave final rip, and there lay the entire
contents of the stummick before us.
eyes," said the young man eagerly,
eyes?
"You'd thought the beef had never
been touched. 1t looked better, II any
thing. than before the Doctor lost it.
j "But the umbrellaland the music-box
and the other things" said the yount
man.
"What umbrel 2"
"Why the silk one the captain los
overheard"
u '.In course he lost it overheard, jus
as was sayin'. The wind outen thu
spanker caught 1t, and it sailed ava.
like Portuguese man-o'-war.
| "Well, but what kind of condittpl
! did you 6nd 1t in when you opened th