Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-12-16

How Brave war ccrrs.ponds nss sssud ~
~ Each Othsr Ia Time Of Peril

~ Hacn Othtf w Itute OF tetN.
The centre Of an admiring group In
the cozy corner OF Park row phar-
macy the other night was the ''Sure
Enough Returned War Correspond
emit"
Never heard OF the shark we--that
Ia I caught off Matanzas during the
blockade, die % inquired the returned
hero.
ooh, tell us all about II, was nat
urally the response Of the stay-at..
home crowd.
'Well, he was six feet from tail 10
muzzle. Thought I'd never get him
aboard. Skipper Of my yacht said
he'd as soon tackle right whale. Myi
but that shark was vicious. The min.
ute we got him aboard Topped him
over on his back"
"Weren't you afraid he'd bite youf"
innocently asked the youngest 70
porter In the bunch.
''Say, my boy" with fatherly
glance), ''don't ever 60. to war In the
tropics II you are afraid OF bullets,
fever, or sharks, but, as was snying,
] twisted Mr.. Shark over on his back
and told my second engineer 20 cut
the hook out. His knife slipped and
he cut that shark wide open. You
can gueas, even II You never saw
shark, what he had in his midst
Well, we threw his works overheard,
and stirl the vicious man-eater showed
fight. ! didn't have time to waste, 50
we chucked Mr.. Shark overheard after
his fxtures."
There was pause. The here
gathered himself, as II for final
burst Of speed, aud continued;
''May j never live TO see another
war IL that six-foot shark didn't swal-
low his insidcs at one gulp, then duck
his head, make straight for my yacht
aud butt her like mad bull at least
half dozen tines. Then he swan
away. That's all. ("
Men looked at each other with that
twitching Of the eye that means
well, Ananias never started with
this chap" There was low whistle,
q sigh from the youngest reporter, and
one man Drawer than the rest ven-
tured to blurt out;
That's the biggest fab story and
the blamedest lilo that was ever sprung
In Perry's back ROOM"
s'Hold on, Deacon" interrupted
the man who, having come Ia for
dose OF malaria medicine and had lin
gered on tue fringe Of the group dur.
ing the recital Of the shark story. Hav.
ing himself only recently returned
from Cuba, where no as y war CORES.
pondent fought and--was--blsd, he
received respectful attention.
my friend has told remarkable
story" he said quietly, but firmly,
''but know he tells the truth"
The s. +. r. w. @. gasped: "WhatI
You can prove that my story Is true.
Come OF. You weren't within 500
miles Of the spot when we carved that
shark.
Fright You are" responded War
Correspondent Number Two, "but I
saw that Same shark while cruising
from Hayti to Santiago. He was
corker for sizc. When he approached
my despatch boat he turned turtle.
We lowered the wherry aud lassosd
the shark. Gentlemen, seam run-
ming down that sharks under side
showed plainly that he had been cut
open and sewed up, i take II, by
aono friendIv shark "
The clerk began mixing . double
dose Of malaria specific, bat the man
who had stood for his friends 6sh
yarn moved toward the door, saying
q he LETT ''Yes, that shark was sewsd
up. probably by one Of hts fellow
sharks, one Of the chaps At Cape Hay
tien that charged war correspondents
025 ton for coal. Good night. New
York Sun.