Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1890-04-09
FIGHT WITH 4 SHARK.
Gigantic Monsters of the Deep
Seen by a Yankee Sailor.
How One Of T'hom Whoored Things Up for
Yenturesome Eishermen-S Some Irus
Fish stories Told by Strictly
Truthful Old Tar.


captain SAM said little boy who, ac-
eording to the Philadelphia Times, was
watching very red-faced old fisherman
way up the Maine coast. as he baited his
trawl hooks, "what Is the largest h5h you
ever saw or heard of:n
"Wal,n repliad the old fisherman. with
ont looking up, sit stands to reason that
Eve heard ON souse bigger ones than | ever
clappea iny eyes onto. Sailor folks is great
On yagning; there amt any use in denying
that One OF EN- starts yarn, aud il kecps
CROWN so fast that by the time It gets
ashore the man what started il wouldn't
know Il.
"But there arc some true fsh steries"
persisted the httle boy
''Sartin, sartIn,n replied Captain Sam,
land / guess I've seen about as 81. a fish
as the next enc. When | was boy not
mite oldeT nor you my gran ther was ewner
and skipper of as fine sixty ton schooner
as cut the water in these parts, and as soon
as got big enough not to fall overheard
and to pull on u herrn' or maclIre line ha
took Ine along, and it was on this very
cruise that | saw a big fish We were FISH
in on what is called the Georges Bank,
away up to the north'ard a spell. The Inen
were out in dories fishin' an only me- an
gran 'ther aboard. | was a foolin' around
two lines, wheE I see somethin' black a
lynn alongside. First ! thought it was
shadder of the keel, but it kept comm
nearer and more distinct, until all at one0I
see it was a critter. First thought il was
whale and sings out to my gran'ther that
there WAS big whale alongside. He came
running out of the cabin and took one look
at it and says: It's bone shark and the
biggest one | ever see.'
'As far as we could make ont it was
sixty feet long-,a lynn perfectly still, its
back out of the water so that man could
have walked ten or twenty feet on his
back. We had a harpoon, but he didn't
dare throw it for fear of losin' it, havin' 20
boat TO follow, so ihere the big shark stayed
until finally the old man tuck q ton Of red
hot Goals from the galley fire and tossed
them on his back. Some OF them stuck, and
it wasn't long before he left.
"When get grown up,n continued Cap
tain Sam, II saw another shark almost as
big, and helped catch it. | sh.Doed in a
sword fisherman as first man. We sailed
irom Boothbay, but finding FISH scarce, we
put down toward Cape Cod, and when we
got to the south'ard we 1oUnd ;bcat az we
could attend to, and in less than week
bore away for New Bedford with "a good
Boston load.' We put to sea again en
Friday. bad day. 80 sailor men say, but
this turned OUT coed luck for us We were
about on what they Cali The Sisters when
the lookout sighted W hat ne thought WAS a
swedish, and we cleared decks accordin';
but when we got alongside we see il vas
big bone shark. The skipper said it ought
to pay one hundred dollars in lie, so we kept
away wEilo Tho mar spliced a 5iggor line On
to the harpoon and then woe around and
catae up on bin again.
SHe was a-vin right IN the slush of the
sea. There was fair so'west wind
a-blowia', Just enorgh to make the sea
make d cae-n gfeal. over ais back thai
looked lie a by logi ani ] leoi5on th.,tb
what yo2 a-taiSeu II 1or II geu'd a-~een il
HoWse'aeger, we oane a-beSglil ,.lonS ia
great shape, the skipper putnin' tue
schooner within ten feet of aim. and, as wo
shot by, me and the second mate leo li1ve
our irous into him, and the same minute thg
men hove oycY the key 81 lie.
''Nhat tld be d9!' sai@ Captain Sam.
who, IN Che eScneulent of TIE old lneial0ry,
had dropped his Line and was boxing TIN
little boy IN The FACE, Sath e ilala Oh pnrh
oil-sldn knee,
"Why, he whaoped tlinEgs, and ,saSeANVin'
to my ninel 0e aot ont Of tie way ia;l IN
TINT, YOU'D a-t.!segat "A 9olsano had bust
right thar Up come a big taA fifteen foot
IN the air, with wSt er and s.iags a-HN4n';
then down il went with nasn 3il0o tae top
sail of tifty gun i,1gaie IN says. There
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put II "bs'l O"o nl'S''.v,s poI,io We ee"
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