The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-25
F1e.srF WITH 4 SHARK.
Gigantic Monsters Of tho pesn
Seen by a Yankee Sailor.
How On. of Than wiooprd T,,ngs Up fol
Ventnres0Sno iffst--rnrr- Some True
Fish Stories Told by u Strictly
Truthful Old Tar.

HiSn Ss0r1eS ASiI ny n strictly
Truthful Old Tar.
"Certain Snm,', sud IL little boy who. nc
cordiny TO the T~hiiaslelphia Times, was
watching u very red-faceu old iisnar,nun
Way up ,he M;ine coast, us he bai,ei his
srawl hooks, "wi,at is the largest fish you
ever saw or Beard oi.'
sWil,' replied the old tis!e rman, with
out looking up, 'it stands to resscn that
I've heard on some bigger ores than | ever
clapps; my eyes onto. Sailor fcli:s is great
on yasri ing; there amt any use III denying
that. One OF en- starts u yarn, aud ii Keeps
a CROWN so fast that by the time 1t gets
ashore the man what started 1t wouldn't
know it."
"But there are somc true fish stories,''
persisted the little boy.
"Surtin, %sartin,'' replied Captain Sam.
sand 1 guess I've seen about as big a fish
Us the next one. When l WAS a boy not a
mite older nor you my gran'thcr was owner
and skipper Of as fine q sixty ton schooner
rs cut the water in these parts. and IS scu.
as got hiy enough not TO fall overheard
aud TO pull on q hcrrin' or inack'rai Inc he
to * me along, aud it was on this very
cruise that i saw a big fish. We wcr. fish
in on what is called the GEORGES EanA,
away up to the north'.rd a spell. Tie 1un..
were out i'll dories II !;sli!n' az caly .lc an
gran'thc: ;board. l was a foolin' around
two lines, when l sec sonitihi;l' bilcls n
lynn | onssidc. First 1 thought il was n
sh dder of tho keel, bu. it kept a comm
nearer and more distinct, unit! all al orccI
sec it was u c%ri:ter. i'irstI t~llonght it was
a whale and sings oEt 10 my .ran'tiier that
there H';s i, big while alongside. he came
IL running out of the cabin and ,oul, one look
at ii and says: slt'S II bone s.a.: * and the
biggest oae l eyer s.c.'
"As far ~ VIC could make out il was
sixty feet Tonga lyin' perfectly still, it's
buck out Of the water so that u man could
have walked len G. twenty feet on his
buck. We lad a larpoon, but he didn't
dare throw il for fear Of losin' il, ll,yiu' no
boa; TO follow. so there She biz shark stayed
:!i.,il finally the old n.in tack IL ten of red
not Goals from the galley fire al,, tossed
IL wasn't long before lac left.
"Wion / got grown up" continued Cap
tain Satin. II s:tw another shark almost as
big, and hoped catch 1t. l Shipped in II
swcid fisherman ;s first man. We sailed
from ts..i..:.i,v, hut finding isl. scarce, we
put down toward Cape Cod aud w,cn we
-. to tae s"ati'ard we found ABOUT all we
could H::e.n: To, and in less than Il week
bose. away ier E,w Bedford with N good
Eosinn !aa.i.' We pat 10 ;an again ON IL
Friday, 81 bad day, so sailo. mon shy, but
i!.is TUNED Oh, goc,i lick for us. Wc were
about Oh what they os!l The Sisters wien
tine .no:iui.t sighted wan. nc thought was IL
swedish. and we c!..aia! ..er.s arcortin';
aig i,n,'e silAr's. III" s.i.p": ..:i 1t ought.
- l,Gy "'-c ...siis,io.: .u.'a.s III liz, so We kept
away v:ii,a tie .i:an s;:'l.ed II bigger iuic on
10 The har,ooa ;;ii,l ;!..a VOC s:ul.nG and
ca.a. NJ. gu Linn %;'.glia.
Nc Was a-iyi.' ;;;.t in The siash of tile
sea. iiiS'c WIS 81 f.i. soyse.,; w...,i
H-hlnwia', jist enough to mike Ike SCH
maze q cic IL break over i,s back ,i,;.t
looked Ike a '.ir lea, and I ~,ar.e, that's
via. .ysni' ! 'lNcn /. iar il va,.'d a-sacn il.
'iowsoa'sver, we came a-Gouiin' along in
greet %s..a.;s. tie ~sl..iicr "r,.tin' the
scl:nnrer within ion foe, cf him, arl, as yve
si."s by, nsc aiisi the sasci:d m;i!e lot drive
our if5ls i'.;o i..!.i, anl the same l.:.nutc the
n.c,: boz. over the kc:, an lirc.
~ hat 80 he dc!" sa;d Captain Sam,
who, i'll the tXcitelnai:. of the old memory,
h::. a,cl.e,od ,:s line and was backing the
li:tle oo.s IL: the face, With q i:aia On each
oil-.isin '.nee.
"N hy, he wlicsped things. aH7 accordin'
to m: mii.': we got out of the way just in
time. You'd a-Lhousht IL volcano h;.d bust
rit:,l, t:.ar. Up conc - big tai. fifteen foot
IN the air, w':i, water and SPRAYS ;:-G.iu':
then down ii Went will, u noise .:i.c the top
sail OF q Iifty gun frig:,ic ii: stays. There
vas ii long cable or l;nc on tt.e haYp5ons.
but il wasn't minutes before wc saw
the kegs so under aaa up they came IL
hnndrcd ~f.tno:as ;"uy. ani @cnt along
sending the water as high as our toIlnast.
cit SO happened, our luck bcin' still on,
that TIC fish bore a::as on the wind; ii it
had a. struck to the windward i. would
have bec:, good bye sure, but on The wind
WAS OR best pull, and after ~ two boar
chise sc cai:ic up Win the isega. !.av:n'
Kept en- in sight The ht.il t;inc from the
tops. We 50" ,ie kegs vas painted White, so
we could SIZE which way the fis.l was com.
The ni-s fish was about ria. Ell Cit: tea
miles or nio.e II: such II rate had about
knocked him, and we rounded 10 snd put
out Two doi'ias and took the lscs,s III. Stand
by!' says tine skipper, .for the minute lie
feels lis si-taiiin' i'll slack he's ;.-;acin' 10 take
Off agin,' and sure enough he Gli. We got
the kegs ano;ild, and the first phi! he made
l was nigh jcr:>cd overheard! bu: we huns,
to him, ta.iiti' in u foot when we could,
.osin' one .u' eain,n' two, dnrin' winch
he towel Us Il matter of three miles or
niore: tiis: We rccsnned he VAS ahou.
through. and we took in pretty fast. We
got within one hundred feet, when the
ether aory ahead slipped alon gs;a,. and give
h!m tie lance the same way they kill
whales.
~ lave heard of hcrc sharks seventy
foot, hat Ely and sixty footers is al | Kin
speak 10" sa.;in about, and | .-:isss that
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