The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1890-06-07
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SENTINEL.
[ith I transmit you an intensely
|and powerfully interesting
novelette,, descriptive of a life
bcean Wave, for the delecta-
| your numerous and elegant
which with very great dill
Ind unremitting toll, | have
Ia from the Swinese of Leptand-
bifllum.
! entitled it
JONAH THE 9TH.
Annanids the 1,954, ,643th.
has res we start:
no is mid-ocean: the time mid
At midday the capting, middling
middling sober: half seas over"
|saylers say. Motel The ortho-
nine own. Mr.. proof-reader: set
as | have put her down. The
,mon remarks to the mid-shipman;
avs he. MILDLY" (They allus calls
Ian MILDLY" for short on shipboard0
#ddy: "whatcherwant?" with Il
hection.) You see the reason he
&bort like was, he thawt the watch
to ast him for anuther siggret,
|one already give the watch two.
R,nt have but few left. But this
bred. The Waterman was kind
IAN and was thinking of other and
tiers than cigarettes. In the mid
wake of the ship was tremendous
ne of the tiger variety. So-called
we'll known voracity. (Note to the
|er.) Don't go and set that up
ow. you hear. But to return to
tsation where the plot will rapidly
.Whatcherwant?" said the mid
n reply to the mid-watchman.
mind that old German emigrant,"
,atch. Well the poor old fellow is
better, mighty fast. Hes been
now. that he hasn't spoke, and
poor little boy OF his. Did you
kid so entirely wrapped up in his
he is? | tell you my lad, I'm afeard
map dies that it'll kill the boy"
retty tutf case, as you say" said
hope not so bad as all that |
them too constitoots the entire
laid the watchman, thems all
er and two girls siclened and died,
e old country, so the old man
hself together, the best he could
Misfortune. and takin' the boy he
,r America. hopin' to better his
so doin" but its me that's think
nce to see America. in the flesh is
and I'll tell you MILDLY" lowering
Ind speaking very seriously. That
Enose shark back here" indicating
bn of the head, has been a follerin'
" and night for three days and
Is. and them kind, them old reglar
rs they don't foller a ship for
don't know how it is-hOw they
whether they can smell death
ship or how, but | tell you ship
Yer see it fail yet. and if that devils
lern' us to-morrer this time. he'll
he gets his prey-and he won't have
lch longer for it either" The mid
Eas too much impressed with the
the old mans words to make any
stood gazing into the briny depths
IN, until recalled to a sense of his
hgs by command of the captain.
RS rolled by. The sun sank below
ION, and the mid-shipman cast II
fern, and there in the self-same spot
y without having moved, was the
fsty monster of the deep, floating
mingly without an effort. Just be-
ng into his hammock for the night,
went on deck and cast u glance
he rear. AT first we failed to see
felt Il sense of relief thinking he
but just then the moon emerged
nd cloud and there was the sharl
b scales glistening like silver in thu
bOnlight.
brning upon going on deck the mid
hoped to miss him, but no. He hat
closer to the vessel. just then tn,
man came up, and glancing asterl
Il the change: "Ah" said he. sadly
ly shaking his head. death II
, on the poor old man; and tina
boy won't leave his father 70
te unless it is to bring him waite
hing Of the kind, and he never close,
ast night, at all. But sorry am t
e old man is.sinking. He cant las
hours longer, and do you min
y, the higher to deaths door h
& higher to the ship will come tha
lock the mid-shipman looked agai
Eighty fish. There he was, only
ser to the ship. This is awful
he MILDLY, horrible. To think tina
fnal fish is kind of barometer b
\ be told that poor mans lease o
TO think too. that that monster Is
ulchre following along to entom
pf that poor man, as soon as it
to the waters of the deep for bul
o'clock the shark was still littl
g vessel. At ten, he was as close u
ID conveniently come. A few mil
the old watchman came up c
said to the mid-shipman: "We
IS all over with the poor old maj
to his long home, and his poor be
With grief"
ocean and midsummer. 1t will NJ
ain the dead aboard a ship. So
Pc old man was fairly dead, the
make preparations to dispose
lnasmuch as they were scarce
" wrapped his body well up in
and to the feet they tied an o
DC, and an old ax and cnp,a 9th