El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-15
D.. 1t WlS AWFUL

| shark, said he. When a shark
| comes up. You understand. the mackerel
| always stop biting and go off and hide.
But mackerel crew in those days was
always ready for anything of that kind
always knew how to come round Mr..
Shark. So we threw over our shark line
with the piece of pork on the end. The
hook had Il chain gangein, so that Mr..
Shark couldn't hit it off.
"Well. in less than 30 seconds Mr..
Shark hit, and hauled him over the
side. He was a nice. hefty shark. Should
say that he would snttin weigh 600
pounds. Had quite tussle getting him
over the side of the schooner.
"'Hold him, there" roared the skipper
when Mr. Shark was fapped on the
deck.
"'Now, Jep'tha,' said the old man,
'straddle him, the woy-diddy, ow-diddy,
slamdiddiddy, and cut him open'
Now. that sharks liver filled half a
hogset Most remarkable big liver.
".Now. doodle-ty, dumpity, sew him
up howled the skipper
"And. sir, he took big sail needle
and they scwed him up with a nice, neat
herrinybone stitch across his white belly.
1t was n real, good looking job in needle
work.
81 stood in the cook galley door looking
on. and I could see by the sharks eye
that he was greatly vexed Mt losing his
liver But he didn't say anything, and
so, when he was all nicely sewed up.
over they threw him, splash, and down
he went below.
This shark had come along about 8
in the morning, you see. While they had
been working on him the wind breezed up
and we kept eating into the windward. and
we got off the fishing grounds
$50 the old man allowed that we might
as well trim sail and make away for Cape
Ann. And we did. Got to the grounds
off Cape Ann long about > o'clock in the
afternoon. Hove to. and down with our
lines and commenced to fish Had good
luck for about half an hour-fish bit well
and were of good size. Then all at once
they stopped biting-just they had
done before.
1.-The old man Strengthened up his
hack, put up his hand to shade his eyes
and took squint to windward.
"'Ubble- de bubble de lubhlc-jin tinted sea
grasshoppers.' howlcd he. Here he
comeSv
"And away. way off. we could see y
shark come filming along modrratcIikr,
yet in Il tOllailc hurry filming like this
and the narrator stuck his hand NJ, in the
air. fingers erect. and gently vihrai'! the
member
$50 along the shark came and tho oil
man told them to hr:.vc over that i.,n:l-
ity boomify shark line as'in.
And they did And the shark bit
He hit hard He evidently wanted to lac
caught. H., had business with as. .AnI
when we pulled him over the side it
just as the old man said il would bs--it
was that same shark.
'Lnnkin. for his Overwhelming for his
liver How sud that sounds when yuu
come to think If it,
'Now. the old man admired grit;
didn't nuke any 'liif-r"n"" who had the
grIt-Ihc on man admnco the crittier
that had it
He stood there and looked at that
shark.
".Gol darn yer said he. 'Ye're nothing
but a blame no count shark. but we've
got backbone enough to stock up a whole
village. Shakcr And he grabbed the
shark by the i'm there right before us
and tipped his hat to him-the grip of the
union.
But still the shark looked vexed.
Oh said the old man in an admiring
lone. 4 wish We knew how to talk the
English language, BY the whiskers on n
paddock. how We could swearr
Now. there was nothing mean about
he old man. He said as how that shark
was going to have his liver.
Take out them stitches ag'in,' said
lie. And they did.
and then the old man. with his own
hands. put back that liver into that
bark. and they sewed him up carefuIler
han ever. Then the old man. to do what
lie could to square things, poured a horn
f rum down the sharks gullet, and they
hcew him over. He still looked vexed,
IS l could see from the galley And
unno as it is to be in any ways wonder
d at. When his fin went out of sight,
t was twigging kind of mad. But he got
is liver, and we didn't see any more Of
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