The Worthington advance., 1899-01-26
MIR. GALLOWAY'S AMBITION.
Tale Of Sim Clipp, Sims Boy
and Shark.

knew, from personal contact, the perils
and hardships of the cod fsherman's
life. =.
THAT uncle of mine was sailor, an
all-around sailor. It was all the same
to him whether he sailed as. deckhand
On ferryboat, steersman on a raft or
able seaman before the mast. Besides
my eagerness to snake in Goldfish off
the banks I inclined toward harpoon-
ing whales in the north seas. When
my uncle came home one time he. said
he had just got back from three years
cruise off Greenland, catching whales.
I told him I thought would go with
him when he went for another cruise.
He said all right. There would be a
good chance for me, as they were three
men short.
"'All eat up by sharks last trip he
said. s. ~
II didn't say much more about going
after whales to uncle just then, but his
memory seemed to be refreshed by my
bringing the subject up and he became
reminiscent.
"a curious thing about it was said
he, that by rights we should have lost
five of the crew. Sim Clipp, the cook,
took = fever, and when he kicked the
bucket we tied an old grindstone and a
rusty blibber ak to him to give him
weight and tossed him overheard. AS
poor Sims body struck the water a big
shark came up, opened his jaws wide
enough to take in barrel, and down
into the sharks nav went Sim. ]
know it wasn't just the right thing to
do,' said my uncle, but as see Sim go
into the shark couldn't help saying to
myself that if Sim wasn't any better
than some O the grub he used to dish
up for us that shark would be sorry it
took him in before Sim had been on its
stomach ten minutes. I Thought maybe
the shark might get away with the
puzzle its digestion, sure. T..
"'Sim's boy Jack was one of us, and
when he see his'father pass in between
the sharks jaws he gave yell and
jumped overheard. The shark hadn't
got his jaws shut yet, and the boy went
straight in after his father. I remem-
ber,' said my uncle, that the captain
was as mad as thunder, and swore that
he might just as well have scurvy the
worst kind aboardship as to have sharks
gobbling his crew, this making five that
had gone to make victuals for 'em, and
he ordered us to keep a. lookout for
sharks and make way with everyone we
saw
"'About an hour after the cook and
his boy disappeared an old leviathan OF
shark came up right alongside of us
and looked wishful. We baited shark
hook with blubber, handed it over to
the big fish, and in half a minute had
the old maneater fast. We got him
aboard by hard work, butchered him,
and cut him open. And what should
we find inside of him but Sim Clipp and
his boy. We had captured their shark.
I said then, and always will say said
my uncle. that the shark discovered
what q job he had on his stomach and
actually followed us to get, caught and
be saved a lot of future misery,
"'But the funniest,part Of the whole
matter was, Sim and his boy were both
alive! We had. made 4 mistake about
Sim being dead. He was only, in a
trance when we cast him in. the sea,
and he had gone down the sharks
throat and come to just as his boy went
humping in against him. Sim and the
youngster held council, and what do
you think they were doing when we cut
the shark open? Rigging up the grind
stone to sharpen the ak on, So they
could cut a hole and get out!' y
my uncle left home again soon: after
that visit to go on another cruise, but
my folks wouldn't let me 60 with him.
So I was prevented from, trawling in
tempestuous seas for Goldfish and .har-
poonirg whales in boreal zones. Yet.
bobbing for bullheads oft in the stilly
night and spearing suckers in the pur-
ling brook amt so bad, after all, and I
have done my share at both OF 'em. :"
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