The Yellowstone journal., 1894-10-10
A TRUTHFUL SAILOR.
RELATES THE EXPERIENCE IN WHICH
HE SWORE NEVER TO LIE.
9vo Seamen, Father and Son, Swallowed
By . Shark. but Both Were Rescued In
. Marvellous Manner-A Day That Was
Certainly Very Hot.


Certainly Very Hot.
''Have l ever seen shark? Ask my
mate-hin, that's rowing that ere cou-
pie out yopder. We were shipmates to-
qether aoo;-d the Pajapootah India
man. His father, who is dead and gone
this 90 year or more, was carpenter
aboard of her.
well, one day we We're becalmed on
the line, when, says young Bill-he was
young Bill then, him as just pointed
out to you-says he, L shall have a
swim round for a cooler, for, believe
me, the sun was that hot we had to
throw buckets of water on the deck to
heep it from catching fire.
..In fact, a pig we killed the day
a1pre we hung aloft and roasted him in
tbe sun, catching the gravy in bucket,
and he was done beautifully.
$50 in he goes head first, with his
Clothes on, and me and his old man
licked over the side just abaft the fore
yaeging to see him come to the top Of
the water again.
But no Bill could we see, and in
seead of him up came a tremendous
lark. with his sides sticking out as if
b had cargo inside over and above
his regular bill of lading.
''It was then as clear TO us as the
nose on our faces that poor Bill had
Atved clear down his throat.
'aThe poor old man Lad a fit right
,sway, and we carried him below and
MT him in bis hammC TX and then ran
- ON deck again in the hope that We
should be able TO cate the fellow.
But it was now ere TO be seen, SO
after watching som, time TO no pur-
pose we Went dowr below to see how
the old man was e ing on. and TO our
aSsonishment and -orrow we found his
body nearly cold aud as stiff as the fly
ing jibboom.
1--WE sewed hi,A up in his hammock,
puttipg the grindstone that he used 10
Grind his tools with inside to make 1t
sink and laid the body on a hatch, with
the union jack spread over it for pail.
Then the skipper read the funeral
service, all of Us standing round dread
fully cut up, me especially, for young
Bill was my messmate, and | was very
fond of the old man.
- last words, which | shall never for
get, they was so solemn, the hatch was
tipped up, and overheard the body went
with splash, and all was over, at least
We thought so.
"But almost Immediately afterward
ap comes another shark, a bigger one,
= seemed, than the first
1.-The boatswain at once ran for the
shark hook and baited it with hunk Of
pork and slung it over the stern, and it
was not many minutes afore we had
him hooked and hauled ON deck.
''Well, the first thing we did was 10
ont his tail off, for he was Tapping it
about so that it shook the ship from
sbem TO stern, that we were afraid II
would shake her TO pieces.
After we had done that we thought
,We heard a very strange noise inside of
Alma sort of grating sound, like boat
being dragged over a shingly beach.
$50 we set to and cut off his head
.and then ripped him up, when, what
A'ye think? What should we see. to our
great astonishment and delight, but Bill
and his father sitting upright like two
,Jonahs, the youngster turning the grind
stone and the old man sharpening his
knife. intending to cut their way out of
the creatures belly.
you say | said the old man was
dead2 Please don't interrupt me, and
I'll tell you all about it.
There's no doubt but what he seem
cd dead, but it was only his blood froze
with horror, and the shark warmed him
to life again. What made him most un-
comfortable, Bill said, was the slip
peryness and topsy turvyness OF the
piace, for there was no rest at sll, for
one minute he was standing on his
head and the next on his feet, and then
he would be tossed from one side to the
other, sometimes gettir1N jammed be-
AWeen the ribs, and he wondered the
meal didn Z disagree with the fish itself.
"But at last came the climax, and
Ball thought it was all over with him.
fr down its throat was shot heavy
bsdy like that Of sack of coal right
abop Of him. nearly smothering him, so
uhat he had scarcely room to move or
hsuathe, and he must have been some
Tine insensible. he said, when he was
yoke up with loud report.
"He thought for . moment the crea-
ne had swallowed powder barrel and
= had exploded, but it was only the
banting Of the canvas shroud tbs old
nan was sewed up in, which had blown
- like paper bag.
.'s@'The noise in its inside. Bill said.
uast have astoniabed the shark, for hs
axain found himself standing upon hts
head, 30 he knew it was making for tbs
surface, and on reaching there IL opened
- enormous jaws for air. when . Hood
Z light entered between the rows OF
t6oth which enabled Bill on gaining his
- ts take stock Of his lodgings, and
tAs very first thing that he saw was his
~ father crawling out from under the
GS6vns like chick from its she'll
s1h old man had caught sight OF
-. grindstone and soon put u into
exiting order, and on the fish once
~. 70 ho fnx, and aOain ad-