The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-19
IN A SHARKS BELLY.

Have I ever seen a shark Ask my mate,
him that g rowing that ere couple out yOn-
der. We were shipInates together on board
the RaiapOotah Indiaman- His father,
who is dead and gone this 20 year OF more,
was carpenter aboard Of her
Chips we used to call him, and if you
don't mind listening to an old salt who's
been round the world enough times to
make a landsmau giddy at the very thought
Of it III Just tell you of little adventure
we had with one Of them man eating
monsters.
Well. one day we were becalmed on the
line when says young Billie was young
says he, g I shall have a swim round for
a cooler, p for, believe me, the sun was that
hot we had to throw buckets OF water on
the deck to keep it from catching fire
In fact a pig we killed the day afore we
hung aloft and roasted him in the sun,
catching the gravy in a bucket and he was
done beautifully.
So in he goes, head first, with his clothes
on, and me and his old man looked over
the side just abaft the fOrerigging to see
him come to the top Of the water again.
But no Bill could we see, and instead Of
him came up a tremendous shark with his
side sticking out as if he had cargo inside
over and above his regular bill o. lading
1t was then as clear to US as the nose on
our faces that poor Bill had dived clean
down its throat
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