The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-09-27
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Emmett Hingle Tells Weird story of
PiscatoriaI Chicken Thief
f It is not often that shark breaks into
mans henroost and steals his chickens.
SUCH case, however, is on record at
Polnte-a-la-Hache.
Emmett Hingle told the story as he
showed a visitor around his fathers back
yard, which was full of lively and intelli-
gent gen young eu chickens Mr.: Hingle has only
His veracity is therefore 1unouestioned.
He introduced the matter by ren;arking:
we lost a great number of our chick
ems last year by shark --.. -
White Or colored?'' asked the visitor
increduonsly. 80
"a "A shark, mana shark from the gulf
Did he walk all the distance or come
in a fish carp - -. : =, -. :" :
The affair is not as impossible as you
are inclined to believe" remarked Mr.
Jingle in an aggrieved tone You notice
the, levee in front of the house. Wei,
each year during the equinoctial season. a
strong southeast wind blows the waters
floods the town. The water is three or
Iour teet deep. We have to go in skiffs
from the front of the house to the levee.
Last year, as usual, when the floods COM
me a Dig henhouse. Naturally when the
nood became deep they could not, come
Gown TO eat. In order to feed them we
and slowly pulled a basket Of corn from from
one l1e END to the other In this way the
cn nc zen had to eat Standing up
sitt;r qua not know that chickens ever ate
lnter]ected the visitor. However that
da ay n nf We oeen their custom during the
continued Mr.. Hingle. II meant that the
chickens ch stood on the roost and ate the
We Me had been f feedn IN the
IN N TINS way for a few days when we no.
t 3G7 tn that they had begun to diminish in
mornine we we f then began to count each
appeared every night: We finally decid-
ca to watch I rugged myself up plat
10 form IN the chicken house and went out
TO s2e = a. the night From 10 O'Clock until
4 nothlng happened. and l was becoming
pretty we'll tired, thinking probably that
f !nes negro gre who had been robbng our hen
another attempt while l was there AS
the gray l'ght began to dawn. however
heard hear l., sc series Of splashes and looking
jumping the fences as if they had been
hurdles: When the shark had jumped
% our fence he S disappeared under the
when heard noise in the henhouse,
and looking down l saw the shark. He
h hafa come in by diiving through the large
gone into the yard when they awoke i,
the morning You may imagine my con-
stsrnatio IN, was alone in a henhouse
Will d Cl1iChcH-edllnS shark, ana L haI
no adequate assurance that he was not
also man-eater. The shark did no:
wait for an introduction. Balancing him.
self upon his tail. he grabbed a CHECKER,
from the roost and swallowed it whole
He repeated this feat until he had eaten
six, and then diving through the hole
went leaping over the fences again, evi-
IDENTIFY very much pleased. He had failed
to see me, otherwise he might have bitten
me in the leg.
.Ss.....Nyells to make a long story short. :.
continued Mr.. Hingle; 1--WE waited for
him next morning, and stopped the hole
after ne had entered. We then killed
Taking the visitor to the rear gallery
Mr.. Hingle showed the jawbone and teeth
Of the shark. In the teeth were a number
of chicken feathers
I'VE managed to kill him before he has
RAD time to pick his teeth.a remarked Mr..
Hingle modestly.-New Orleans rimes-
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