The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-17

his pointed tail as though to say to
Willie:
II got him that time. didn't IT,
Served him right" was Willie's
thought, as he continued his stroll.
We'll" said Willie, what are we to
do now? This walking all around the
bottom of the river is fine"
well" and Woo pointed his finger,
there is the sea not so very far away.
We have to go out there and then go
down in the earth. If you wish / will
take you there in a jiffy. and You'll
never know what happened, but per-
haps you would rather walk along and
see what the bottom of the ocean looks
like?"
Willie thought for moment, and
decided that he would walk.
So slowly the boys strolled along.
Looking up they could see that all the
time they were getting out into deeper
water and the scenes began tc change.
Crabs of all kinds crawled on the
bed Of the water or ocean. The i'm
mense king crabs, or horseshoe crab as
he is. sometimes called, was source of
wonderment to Willie. who was some
what inclined to be afraid of these
strange and horrible appearing Great
ures which seemed to have plenty of
life, but nothing except legs with a
KIM Ol uIlUIClid CONel. Iul ~ it-
assured him by telling him that he had
walked all through that part of the
country for thousands of years and had
never been annoyed by any fish or
crab.
Willies eyes were wide open all the
time and once when he saw a shadow
pass overhead he dropped quickly on
his hands and knees as though to
dodge whatever might be coming.
ITS a shark" he cried, remember
ing his experience when the shark had
gobbled up the fish-eating fish.
"Pshaw. it's only a school of por-
poises," replied Woo. Look up and
see them turning somersets."
Willie did look up and there he saw
about dozen big black things turning
over and over and apparently having
all kinds of fun. They were quite
large, but as black as they could be-
and reminded him very much of a pen
filled with black hogs except that
these sea hogs were not in a pen and
were not quite so dirty as pigs usually
are.
After this the boys began to pass all
sorts of fishes tt were many
sharks--dog sharks, which never bite
any one, hammer-headed sharks
which have heads shaped very much
like a double-he aded hammer and
there were sharks which every one
calls man eating sharks. One of the
very biggest of these had the impu-
dence to poke his nose under Willie
arm and try to swim under it. The
result was that Willie was knocked
over and scared more than he had been
for long time. But the shark passed
on with his sand-papery skin glistening
in the water
There were cells in abundance The
little cells were quite playful, but the
large conger cells looked like enormous
snakes, bow conspirators, Willie
called them. but Woo only laughed
They won't hurt anybody" said
Woo. lin fact fish never do hurt people.
You hear all sorts of tales about people
being swallowed by sharks, but sharks
never. swallow human beings"
I've always heard that they did,"
replied Willie.
II know you hear such things" an
swered Woo. You can hear all sorts
of stories by people who like to get
other persons excited, but all the same
sharks never touch a live man. Once
in a while they will eat a dead man.
but sharks are rank towards and
quickly fee from a person who moves.
Sesl"
Two sharks were coming their way.
WOO raised MS arms, the sharks turn
ed tail and disappeared in a twinkling.
That's the way to chase sharks off,
said Woo. My, how rough this water
Is"
by this time they had reached the
ocean proper and could plainly see the
waves rolling over their heads. And so
they walked along on the sandy bot
tom and meeting more fishes OF all
shapes. colors and sizes
In his hurry Woo Wang had gone q
considerable distance ahead OF Willie,
who had Jagged behind 10 enjoy all the
sights as much a. possible.
All az once While felt something
touch bis side and pass him.
To his amazement he saw figh
which he never would have pictured
even IN the wlldeSt dreams OF bic live.
~ Imagination
IN was SIX Or seven feet IN length
with q tall which started on big neaf
the head but tapered almost ~ 4 point
~ the end Sticking upward from the
nose o. lipe were three long thiuRs
which looked Ike sticks with silver
faEf On fhe ends These three faFs, ~
flnA. ~ they really we're. nufiered ln
The water lu0t iihf mage ip "a breeEe
Buf IA Nas fhe bead ~ ihT Strange
creature which ptrariee fue sfteHfi0n
of MNiie. Ine bead looked A. fte ihree