Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-10-30
Al TRUTHFUL SAILOR.
RELATES THE EXPERIENCE IN WHICH
HE sWoRE NEVER TO LIE.

N"HNN-A's 'NS
"Have / over seen shark? Ask INV
,nate-him that's rowing that ere cou.
lie out yondcr. We were shipmates Co..
rcther aboard tho Rajapootah India.
man. His father, who is dead and zone
this 20 year or more, was carpenter
nboard of her.
'Well, one day we were 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 cooler, for, believe
me, the sun was that hot we had TO
throw buckets Of water on the deck TO
keep it from catching fire.
Fin fact, a pig we killed tho day
afore we hung aloft and roasted him in
the sun, catching the gravy in bucket,
and no was done beautifully.
$50 in he goes head first with his
clothes on, and mo and his old man
boxed ogor the side just abaft the fore
riggiIg 20 saJ him come to the ton of
tlio water again.
But no Bill could we see, and in.
stead of him up came u tremendous
Shark, with his sides sticking ont as if
he had cargo inside over ana above
biz regular bill Of lading
1T was then as clear to US az the
nose on our faces that poor Bill had
dived clear down his throat
The poor old man had fit right
away, aud we carried him below and
put him in his hammock and then ran
up OH deck again in the hope that wo
Should be ablo to catch the follow.
But it was nowhere TO be seen, so
after watching some time to no pur-
pose we went down below to sec how
the old man was getting on, and to our
astonishment and sorrow we found his
body nearly cold and as stiff as the fly.
ing jibboom.
1--WE sewed him up in his hammock,
putting the grindstone that he used to
grind his tools with inside to make it
sink and laid the body on 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.
''As soon as the skipper had finished
the last words, which / shall never for
get, they was so solemn, the hatch was
tipped up and overheard the body went
with a splash, and all was over, at least
we thought so.
'But almost Immediately afterward
up comes another shark bigger one
it seemed, than the first.
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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 to
cut his tail off, for he was Tapping it
about so that it shook the ship from
stem TO stern, that we were afraid it
would shake her TO pieces
"After we had done that we thought
we heard very strange noise inside OF
him--a sort of grating sound, like boat
being dragged over a shiDgly beach.
80 we set TO and cut off his head
and then ripped him up, when, what
dye think? What should we see, 10 our
great astonishment and delight, but Bill
aud his father sitting upright like two
Jonahs, the youngster turning the grind
stone aud the old man sharpening his
knife, intending 10 cut their way out of
the creatures belly
lyon say / said the old man was
dead? Please don't interrupt me, and
IN tell you all about a.
There's no doubt but what he sebm-
cd dead, but u was only his blood frOl6
with horror, and tho shark warmed him
10 life again, What made him most uu-
comfortable, Bill said, was ths slip
poiyness aud topsy tulyyness ~ iAS
place, for there was no rest al all ioF
ono minute boo WAS standing op hlH
head and tho poXt on bis feei, and tAen
he would bo tossed ilpm one side " the
OtAar sometimes getting laWnled DO
tween the ribs, and ho wondered tAe
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