Milford chronicle., 1889-03-08
A MAN FISH.
he COULD SWIM FOR THREE DAYS
IN THE TOUGHEST OF SEAS.
BLUNDERS AT THE ALTAR.

overheard In Storm just for a ..T,-,, ,
Sharks Wouldn't Bite Him. bu, F1.a >,
Ar His Approach.
,o1o az o'clock in the afternoon Of june o.
too9' was in the crows nest or lookout -, -,
he go.i1 tne New England whaler Yankee
NJ e s-li anu we We're bearing up for VALPARAISO
-. .s, S-l 'ue Juan FERNANDEZ Islands when
'id caught sight OF a floating human bolv ~, ~
lee bow, and half mile awav ~ oi Lls ..is
only Light breeze and tie sea was soo,.aaIS-
81 disturbed, and from my perch aloft corI5
9u ss9 even the iish as they PLAYED about ms
IN had scarcely hailed the deck vbe-, +ho
ioa'er raised his head, kicked his feet nnder
4. - s1i ,aoei ana, after waving his arm as n
y sisnal' ne began swimming down to us The
- NsIt VI d man out at sea, provided with
- er,a',-ts "uaseVer TO hoat him, was queer
~ enough out there was something n,ucb ,,,C,
n queer in store for US have sae1 49, ,..'
OF almost every country in the water bnt I /
= never saw anything like the speed this aootar
Haue as he came down to rs He 5,st
sLloAed through the water like q vav,l VEL
uer san set to a stiff breeze. All fbo ,no.
mustered forward to get sight of him and as
ne came alongside he checked his yvav -
out; ''''u 0'oliy called {
" W hat ship is thatF
swered the mate 4''Aee Land, an 4
Want any hands?n a
~ es' Wen ship you, replied the eantsin ! !
~ cry well, sir-I1l come aboard y '''''i i
tley 0nieW him rope and he soon stood >
etir II, .ug O5ly nhconeerned person on the n
% mp ne asked for chew Of tobacco. Wrrno, !
, ~ "aOer OUT OF his clothes, and when tbe d
No.. @ guy nun some grub he did notap-
L'e''i over hungry. He refused dry cIo+hoFs
9LyiIg that he felt better when damn -
"ueH ..,l ne had finished eating he explained
,;-A ny name Is Tom Finch. quit the Enc b,
80. - Olls saxon two days ago. can steer n sh
oo4O OF hasten to whale with the bast ~ yC
you; ~ Give me lay and let me turn to" a
lou quit the Saxon two days aooFp
queIIed the captain 'sO' tb
''Yes, sir" m,
Where was sheYo sla
SIR" ''iiieS 70 tne northwest, SCI
AT seaf' 4.i
YES sir.n r.,
"How did you guitgp
sad good-by to my watch and i,,,,, vo,
l,.'l ipoard' and have been foatinS eyo- fre
IN, There wasn't man in the shin who ro and
man ,ro.,I, ,,is sloIy' Indeed, what Intelligent
,al t,-,tI, De4leVe ltf And yet it was gos and
= - rum as we discovered when wa ,,ooo7,, j
q iparaiso. The Saxon was there ana h"It glo,
uozen OF her crew had seen him 90 ,. YOU
'oard, as stated. mn 20 over n
= nan nsh had come aboard of rs Tboro will
o'eI was mermaid, but he certainly, 49, look
ellllah' lie was next to anpbibio1s IT. Sc
,o+ - - i0I sixteen MONTHS and during you
.-..is was Ihe wonder of our crew and oS have
,oj ,o1ls os,lsI ere" we met. He was stalwart DC
3ou tooAing chap of IS, but his interior nav carb
-'o oesh built on the fish princinla II, No
am as swiftly as some kinds of an - frien
~ 81 "Ltuout seeming to tire him. He coI1J stone
y De drowned, and no shark would bito bi-,, In
-, t-u no was queer man. The reader ryol- big a
~ nsIees with me. l give nv word anJ cause
nor VnaV every statement l shall molo - a littl
1e' ana can be proved true. a kim
- "a teHIer was laid up with a broken
y , -, - "uel pIhch announced that he could
ro,. , ~ oTc'lihe carpenter temporarily Pro
stor,. f aiaIaiso no longer doubting Royal
- - t"o Gays hoat he gave US specia
e1ous exhibition Of his skill rs n svrir, iourn,
T., III running back to the south we st,,-i search
lag end OF a cyclone and got n ter,.iTIo comm
- Ols snIP was pitched about like a who al
,,'-'. ,ito waves walled up on US now and versy
- U-'iI uuef crests seemed to tower. tift, curiou
',1,.I 'iie ran Everything was lasbed stances
0o1oio ',o R'shed, and the cook could not carried
y Us even a cup of coffee fol. tyvant- teriops
f, 1is to I. We were lying to and hanging the roc
ior NE Finch stripped to his sbirt o--s new a,
. ana Went overheard for larl- TLa known
man ahlong us would have been drovy,,aI Caleb
y l-,iiuDes' lie was in the water two This
.i - nen Ne came out he did not pufP tons
- man VINO had run across the and can
a hundred times in these two hours one 9th,
f'' ~ ne was lost, but he had no mora that La
tiiise4i unah as II lie was on drv land been tai
~ sixteen months l saw him 90 over. Shebac-,
1 'S many as fifty times, in ali erCs ol ROCK v
ler, and by day an ~ night, and vet by the
yer met with "A accident to be t
ated ths = - no shark would bite him. He in thi.
- 1liiS iact thousand times over. Hor- forty-f
ol',i 4s ior reasons best known to them. and is
tio,, INES pass swimmer bv. tons, a
.ney are small fry compared to tho 10 carry.
t, ana White sharks Of midocean. the ste
True man eater is not a shore fish go. storms
Oiicai waters, When wbaler is o One of
= ~ cutting IN and trying out. and l. twelve
. - - NeiUle the wind, your real man 1900 to
~ - - nave seen them TWENTY-FIVE
~ ,ui7i J-Iiiacieu up and moss grown like u
- "Haies' ana evidently a hundred
oid. Ihese are the demons of tba oor, Preparil
VIII rush upon a raft and upset IL m. 80 80
pieces, and who seem to feel no main fro,, Towar
ilck Of lance. We got n ,yboIa - ~ ready on
west OF Conception hundred IL, IN comnani,
e,uu flnch gave US his first exbihitio,, condemn
AZ an eighty barrel fish lashed head ami the shoul
, ~ s'. board Side, and were Just hook a pardon
70 le hrst blanket piece to hoist avav ter As
ie9 OF Tour monster sharks appeared self he is,
io ~ VINO came up astern was of sncb si7e chaplain
D lS men called out in amazement NJ led to the
~ us uorsai I'm above water and Wa is cut aws
sec every inch of him. 1t was enoro,6 knife to f,
= youa cnll to note his wicked ewes and fastened '
= -ui riil NOUN ders and c
Il rlheh saw this shark he said bo binds the
oIlVe nm away. Thecaptain oyisraS the wrist
80 SJou0 1ls business, not wishing fS another CO
ere of their I,,'I "siIled until the Off Thus ST
m ru on the lee bow with great snissh .ii.icn as
.is, iss @ wlid cry from the crew and elIown o.
/, i.n "a ropes, but Tom looked mn ond ended the
rt ahd swan around the stern Of tbe tine, the pi
.ne olg man eater had backed ~ the headsrr
aI,sy lees at the splash, but two executions
almost as large, had come nm on a. ciol I'M
. - III mere lay three Of the wicked o,o,, - !,
"a eus atlantic ocean. Evervb0i,- 49, s'liu u
AUG anu gestured, and half a ydo1a51 sees Is the
1s l1s We're thrown to Tom b,1t - contrary &
~ s,e Lllliiu US he suddenly sank 10 concealed
surface and made bee line for Nv. the door n
- ~ my surprise, the old fellow stems and n
%sluS % 20 escape the collision s,,-j,l,i, - =, :
RUIN TO the letter that Tom Ei,.t, s''lislils oo
cry one or those monsters avva,- fara eAeeutloner
,, ~ ~ an h9ur he padded about in se oascule
: = ~ ~ was unlarmed In the con,Sa the fall Of
n bI IN houIs the big shark returned the body (,
= - 93iuooer was tied up IN an old coat movements
PED overheard, and be n,s5o - St ,e1o lie 80
y - - Iee5 ana holted it down lilo a -
,,J - 0oOA up his station off our / ,,1.l - - @ %
-i.u ,l uoI over thirty feet away and Piieed IN
mounted the rail and made y lo-,e cemetery, vi
4 , az hlm The shark Went of ill., field When
we sa" him no more.-New Yori, and it is inte
terry no name
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ular ballad Listen to the Moch. oI,.y III oouy Is
written zen and first published in take it Stri