The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1893-11-09

ana the DolllnG SURF tOOk neF up HDdEe
IL high and dry. Before the recedinR
water could bear her back the oars
men leaped out agile as cats, and in
an instant the buoyaut craft was hauled
on to dry land.
But il was startling experience to
a novice like myself who had never
been in Indian surf before.
We were driven to the hotel IN a
bullock ghari without springs and
shaken up considerably. Nine Du-
maurier received us with her sunniest
and sweetest smile We reclined in
the easiest of chairs on the piazza
while small Indian boys famed the
flies off US and the lshansarnan brought
us cooling drinks While smoking
our Lunkah cheroots Capt. Kennedy
said:
The widow is the only woman
yarn for me. Don't say a word to
Marie"
Marie was his wife. Alas for the
depravity of human nature. What
are we going TO do about it?
Brandt pani laso toom sala.' said
the sk;2per 1t was about all the
Hindustani he knew. Although the
natives ali along the Madras coast
speak Tamil Hindustani is understood
in all the hotels.
The liquid panacea was brought and
the skippec felt better.
Mime. Dumaurier was quite charm
/ ing at dinner that evening. She was
dressed in gauzy sort OF gown that 1
am not man milliner enough to de-
scribe and spoke English with de-
/ lightful accent | shall not spoil by at
tempting to reproduce The scene
/ was quite novel to me. The waving
/ punkahs the snowy napery, the shin
! ing silver the khitmutgars waiting
! behind each chair were agreeable
/ changes from the monotony of life
aboard ship.
The punkah- wallahs were kept busy
that night Next morning while the
captain and were taking our chota-
hazaree on the veranda unto us came
! Nine Dumaurier in charming neg
ige wrapper. She was crying bit
| terly.
She told us how one of her pets-a
little native boy named Ramoon-had
been eaten by shark that morning.
He had gone out fishing with two
other natives and the greedy monster
had attacked the catamaran and
feasted on RamoOn.
She related how the man-eater had
long been the terror of the coast ada
cent and that the natives all declared
that ever since he had tasted human
flesh several months ago nothing else
would be good enough for him. Young
Ramoon had been his tenth victim.
My captain. she said" cannot
rest until that horrid shark is killed.
You are brave; catch him for me- -
And she gave him such a beseech-
ing glance that it made me feel envi-
GUS
At this moment we heard the report
of gun. and looking seaward saw a
puff of smoke from the poop of the
Calabar. The captain seized a pair OF
marine glasses and gazed long and
earnestly ct his ship.
My God! Jack. said he to me. Il
wonder what's up aboard? There
the ensign hoisted at half mast"
Without waiting to say good-by to
Madame we hurried to the beach and
We're soon in a boat pulling madly for
the ship The mate received US at
the gangway and told us sad story
Young Allen an apprentice had been
sent over the stern to touch up the
gilded scroll work that adorned her
old-fashioned quarter galleries. He
had fallen overheard. and big shark
had seized him while he was swim
ming 10 the ladder. The shark had
dived down with him and he was seen
no more. That surely was the man
eater.
Allen was a general favorite and
the grief WAS general.
The captain swore that he would
catch that shark. He tried to tempt
him with salt pork-a tidbit he dearly
loved-with buffalo hump and fowl
All effort however seemed thrown
away. At last Il bright idea struck
him. One of the old razor backed
sows in the Portuguese quarter had
lately Uttered The captain bought
one of the pigs and brought it aboard
with him. The shark was cruising
around waiting for another appren-
tice. The skipper deity lashed the
shark hook to the pig 5 body and threw
him overheard. paying out plenty oi
line. The pig splashed about and
SWAN Justify for his life. The shark
made one dash at him. and in a mo-
ment he was in his NAV. We hauled
the devil aboard. and after fierce
battle his tail was cut off
The captain had solved the problem.
This terror of Pondicherry would only
bite at living bait.
His jaws and tail were taken ashore
20 Madame as an evidence of good
iaith. He was the largest man eater
ever captured on that coast being
pretty nearly forty feet long.
Did the widow reward the captain ?
She did.