The morning news., 1888-07-26

hanged if know says he. Then we drank
over. After a time we got ourselves to be
lieve that what we had seen was nothing
but loAg piece of seaweed floating with
the tide
"a short time after this the fish began to
bite again, and we partly forgot the mat
| ter, fur we were too busy to think 1t was
2:45 o'clock know this, for I'd just pulled
out my watch to see the time-when The
fish once more quit biting us suddenly as
they did earlier in the day. We changed
our tackle and our bait, but all to no pur-
pose, for we couldn't get twltch. | lit a
cigar and so did Frank, and we lay back
ana made ourselves comfortable. All at
once Gay jumps to his feet and shouts out;
"'My God! What's thatH
Il looked the way he was pointing, and
saw a sight such as | never saw before, aud
don't want to again in hurry. About fifty
| feet away between us and tue Long Island
shore. was a long-looking thing, which
seemed to me like big string of lager kegs,
strung together lengthwise But it was
moving and coming toward our boat at IA
pretty lively rate, 1t wriggled along eX-
actly ike snake does, only instead OF
working itself through the water with a
sideway motion, it Went up and down like.
1t seemed to us that it must run right into
our boat.
'Well, don't know that l was ever so
much scared in all my life and | guess
Gay wasn't much better fixed. Without
knowing what did gave a yell like all
the Indians at Buffalo Bill's show shouting
together Whether the thing that was
now close to us heard MS or whether it had
seen the boat, | don't know, but anyhow it
stopped, and slowly raised its head out of
the water.
It's the sea serpent" says Gay, and he
Topped down upon the bow seat half faint
ing. As [ said before, the serpent lifted
up its hea and we got good idea of what
its actual size and look was Its head, which
was shaped like a snakes or rather an cells,
must have been a good four feet long, and
1t showed about nine or ten feet of neck
Behind the corner of the mouth were some
things of purplish color that kept putting
in and out like the gilis of a fish. Its
eyes were long and snaky looking,
and of kind of dull yellow. Its head was
black and the upper part OF the neck dark
dirty brown Under the jaw and neck the
general color of the thing was muddy
gray. Az far as we could see. the back
was a shiny black, but of this | am not Ger
tain, as this might have been caused by the
shine of the sun on its wet body. From
just behind the head to several feet down
the neck there hung bunclies of what looked
like coarse gray hair. A, it raised its head
it made a loud snorting noise and blew
water from the sides of its mouth in show
ers.
ut kept moving its head from side to
side, exactly as the snakes that you sse in
shows do when they are ON the lookout for
food. But I'll tell you the queerest thing
about the whole business, and that was the
awful smell it gave out from its body. Ii
you took a lot of decaved fish and mixed it
with musk you would get a mixture that
would be pretty near it, From what we
could see of the body lying on the surface
of the water | guess that the thing mu
have been fully 90 or 20 feet long and about
twice as thick around as a man of average
size. 1t kept its head and neck up for while
one could count fifteen or twenty, then
gave a big snort, dived, and that was the
last that we saw of it,
n L forgot to tell you that when we first
saw it coming toward us we noticed q num-
Der of porpoises jumping out of the water
as if scared to death. 1t may be it was
after them. When it went out of sight we
piled on all sail for home, two as badly
scared men as ever you saw. | was sick at
my stomach Just after the thing dived, and
| think the smell made me so.n
Mr.. Kuhn says he was in bed all Tues
day, and was compelled TO call in medical
attendance. The doctor who responded
THINKS the patient may have been suffering
from a shock produced by fright. Mr.. Gay.
who was also found at The Empire Casino,
confirmed by Mr. Kuhn's story.