The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-12

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and corrupting acquaintance VIZ
salt water had left the tihneo
over copper bulbs 3 rusty, green
"Why don't I keep them polished up:
he said Because they're great oeai
better the way they are "A silhS - |
helmet is enc eternal nuns ne, 80, When
get any peace till it's coated over NJ
I'm wearing one. I always feel as II my
head was sort of trolling-spccn; any
how most fish regard 1t that way. Anu
7 must say they do certainly seem 10 NC
irving their level best to be caught
II often think that with the majority
of sea beasts life must be che iChs s.ius
gle between natural warfhess ,t'a a
wore than natural curiosity. Ihey We |
all been brought up TO give wioe oni.is
to things they don't understand OUT II
hrcd i'm their bone to want to see ahn
keen nm with everything that's new. ana
when it's something that's got glitter
or polish TO it. all that their parents anu
guardians have taught them from the
beginning OF time 1871 s''s w
them back. ,., j..
..Aud no one has such opportunities TO
find that out as the diver. AZ n1st, ~, nv
you're being lowered. there's nothing gu.
a flicker of tails disappearing IN every
direction; but after a while ana very
soon if you're wearing ne" neao Dr.,
you begin to make out big pairs Oh sosSie
ewes staring at you from the under-sea
twilight. and they gradually move al
closer and closer. In a rev n,.nu'es
probably they'll be making little darts at
your fingers and swishng their taiis
across your face
land yet in some cases they may NOT
he at all hesitatinE about introducing
themselves. Down in the west lndics
there's q fish of the forward sort Ihat
the BOBBY. Did you ever see skate
when a fishermans tied cord around his
neck. bent his silly face forward, and
set him up on a table to keep things gay
AMI humorous in the market! WE'LL d
ho,by looks something like that.
But with all his amazing ugliness, 1t
isn't the booby's looks so much as his
overwhelming SuddenneSs that makes MN
unpopular with dccp-sea men. over
COOS down and along with the other fish
the BOBBY hears of it. But is he shy ana
timid about coming forward? The minute
ne hears of a miraculous stranger III ms
midst, my, but he does more than want
10 know He's not content tC
wait for the extras as you might say
ties got to rush straight downtown an
zee the bulletins!
.sThe first thing tho unsuspecting dive
Knows. he's hit plump in the forward face
plate; and between his being Jared lik
a shio in bow-on collision. and hi
being given the firm belief that he's na'
q visit from? the ve-y old grinning demon
of the urder-sea himself, he's ready t
put for the surface ike a Stampoded der
rick-hoist aud do his recovering slGy
and al leisure. He's lucky if the boon
hasn't tried the thickness of both hi
sidc-pIates, too, before he's safe over T.!
sunwai2:
There's another sea beast that has n
own peculiar curiosity, ard that's tn
giant Suud: but there's nothing so Yer
humorous about their LITTLE prEinS II
ouisitiveness Once in the Mediterranean
one gave RE a half-hour which. l though
would leave me graN-hoadcd. just no
near it was to being my last dive
never know
ut happened in the end Of the summe
when I'd been on that job near Shan
hal. and I was coming home by way
Suez when ! got a wire at Port Sa
from Headquarters directing me to tai
my gear and sidetrack myself direct
Palermo, Sicily. When I got there-a1
didn't lose any time making come
ttons-I found that a badly moored lin
had pinched big lighter between he
self and the mole-the long stone VIVA
and breakwater the Paiermese are
proud of-and, smashing it abeam, n
sent it to the bottom. 1t was a COVER
ment lighter and It's cargo was an I
usually valuable one-would forty
fifty thousand dollars in our money-a
was to do what I could toward hosti
good fat salvage out OF 1t.
lit was simple, easy work. The
were two or three medium-siz cases
derrick up, and for me it wasn't mIl
more than snap-to the chain hooks a
give the word to haul away.
IN fact, there was only one thi
which kept the job from being eXac
the kind / like; l couldn't seem to ma
good tenders of the Italian seamen the
given me to work with. They wo
pump steadily enough. but had no h'
all for signai-taE Z: and before lc
j was practically reg. ating my air s.
ply and timing my des- Hnts for mysel
~ never got too littltN Wind and wi
] got too much l simply Nened Il W.T.
band and ffabbied out in time. Th
too I had loaded cable NH!der drop
from the side OF the mole to- She deck
the lighter. and 1 climbed M, md dc
that without any useless ter IS iar>hi
After the first week l told the t~hot
bother looking for signals but Sc
Act down and haul up the hoisttns
For all the Italians were stupid
diving hose and line, they
mighty good fellows; and in the eveni
when they could get off, l had &
times with them and their frle
Queerly enough, too most of my run
I'm going fishing for the sdutd fheir
of catching it was a new idea TO
They take twenty-foot cane poles
fasten punches of sturgeon hooks to
ends of them, like lot of very $
Iashes on very long whipstocks; and
manage to get 'Signor Pulpu'-aS the
lite Pafmercse call the beast-tanglet
in them pretty badly
"They do their fishing on nights
there's a moon. for suuid make 1t
habit to spend their day out at sea
10 come back inshore late in the ever
When it is moonlight they can be spt
very easily for they swim Just beto"
aurface. and their pinwheel m'
roughens up the water above them
the bright silver is in oNidized wh
AS soon as pulpu has circled hir
into striking distance Il bunch OF h
is slid under him. and one tine II
twist and jerk does his business b.
he knows what's killed him.
And they're not slaughtered want
either but for the pot and oven. like
other fish. Although l was matt
rather stand-ofiish about them at
after I'd tasted them boiled in oil
carayav seed, and lathered over