The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-24

he could. He threw himself down on
the back of the whale, fiattene6 MIN
self out as much as possible and walt
ed to see what would happen next.
Then came two more columns of wa
ter rising in the air and looking very
much like streams of water being fore
ed up. by a fire engine.
AS the streams died away the body
on which the boys clung began to move
slowly. Hearing a noise in the rear
Willie looked that way and there was
the great tail of the monster flashing
about at a terrible rate and churning
the water until it looked very much
like one big mass of soap suds.
Then Willie slipped down towards
the tail and looking the other way, he
was just in time to see the mighty
head of the whale come out into sight
and up went the two columns of water
to very great hight.
The immense tail continued to churn
and away went the whale with the
two young Adventures clinging to his
back.
At first the big creature SWAN slow
ly, but in a short time his speed had
increased so that it was with difficulty
the little chaps could keep their place.
Willie fiattened himself all he could,
but all the time he felt himself slip
ping slowly, but surely down towards
the whales TAIL
Wool" he shouted, ct am falling off.
Help me, quick!"
Catch the rope" yelled Woo Wang,
who had in some manner managed to
get hold of a rope which seemed to be
fastened TO the head of the whale.
Willie threw out his arms in one last
despairing effort to save himself, when
he heard Woo's exclamation, and he
was delighted to find that he grasped
something which he soon saw was a
real rope. He hung to this and In
stantly stopped slipping.
Finding that the rope did not give
way the boys arose to their feet and
the tug-of-war. The whale was swim
ming quite close to the surface of the
water, so close; indeed, that fully one
half his entire body was out of the
wet. The boys saw that the rope to
which they chung was attached to a
harpoon which was sticking deep in
the neck of the creature.
Whaling men had evidently harpoon-
ed the beast, which had succeeded in
not only getting away, but in taking
with him a large section of the rope
This was a most unfortunate accident
for the whaling men, but on the other
hand it was a very nice thing for the
boys. Without it they would have had
little or no ride and by this time would
have been back at the bottom of the
sea.
All this time the whale had been 60
ing so fast the boys could not get
breath enough to do very much talk
ing; in fact, they were travelling al
| such a high rate of speed Willie began
to grow dizzy. Every now and Their
the whale would spout, and all the
| time his tail continued to lash the wa
tiers, leaving behind a foam like the
wake of a steamer, and on they went
| 1t was a glorious ride, but it was
not to be for long. The whale kept
on a straight course for the open sea
Everything was going along merrily
when suddenly the head of the Great
| ure went up into the air and at the
same instant it began to spout at a
| terrific rate, reminding Willie of a
| couple of locomotives letting of
| steam.
Here we CO." cried Woo Wang
This monster intends to dive straight
down. Get ready. Hang on Tight
Hardly had the words passed his
| lips ere the head came down with a
smack on the smooth water, the wrig-
! Cling tail went up into the air and
down plunged the whale, which had
| apparently decided it was time to sc
| to the bottom to get something t.
eat.
ITO he Continued