Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-08
SHARK CAME ABOARD.
Am UnvveIcome Visitor That Entered the Cabin and ReveIed In the
 Best Dainties.

This is the story of shark and cable ship-an anecdote told by a vet eran seaman of thrilling experience ! aboard "cabler" with one of the monster maneaters who infest the wa ters of the Mediterranean. And this is how he told it to brother seaman as they were comparing notes on the abll- l ity of the maneaters to live out of the water for great length of time, re- l lates the Brooklyn Eagle:
 '"The long Grappel," said he, twas I cable ship and we were at St. Helena, anchored close in, and the second en- gineer got a hook, baited it with fist 1 full of oily waste from the engine room and began to fish for g. huge shark ! that was hanging about our stern. i ''As it happened, the governor of St. { Helena, or some big pot, was coming 1 to dinner that day, and the table in the saloon was set out with the best glass 1 and pineapples and bananas, and what not, all in the way of dessert. We'll, i the shark was & bit coy, but just as four l bells were striking he gobbled the bait.
 The old man was ashore and we clean forgot about the governor com i ing to dinner, forgot everything but the shark plunging and tugging at the 1 line. '...4-I
 Well, we had hoisted the brute ten feet or so clear of the water when the first roller struck us, pointing our bow balks at the sky and swinging the 1 shark out till his tail nearly touched the water, then, swash! we went into the trough, pitching our propeller up to the sky and swinging the shark in board.
 :'The blight of rope slipped, and smaghl came the shark on to the after 1 gratings; 22 foot he was, and as thick as Pickford's van almost.
 Swish! came the next roller, and as we went into the trough the shark shot onto the deck, slxidded along it as If he were on skates, cannored against the starboard bulwarks, and as the next roller took us on the starboard bow it shot him head first down the saloon companionway clean out of sight, and you wouldn't have known there was ashark on board only for the l screams of the second saloon steward, who was coming up with tray of cocktails just as old blow-hard was going down.
 "The shark lay head to the open sa- loon door. He gave his tail flap and seemed undecided whether he would go on into the saloon or come tail first into the cable tank; the next roller decided the question, for it shot him right into the saloon and banged the door on him, for all the world as if he had pulled it behind him.
 "I heard various sounds from the saloon, where all our best glass was put out and covers laid for 15 people; but I did not go in. We'll, you may fancy the state we were in, the ship pitching and all.
 "Just then our o1dman came aboard and there was gay time, tell you. We got rifles and tried to shoot the brute through the sky1ight.. You could see him rolling about in pineapp1es and hothouse flowers and broken glass; but he had janmed his head be- tween the legs of the table, which had split in two, and the after part of the table fitted him just like sunbonnet and the bullets glanced off it; so we gave over.
 At six in the morning the skipper called the second engineer and told him as he had brought the brute aboard he must get rid of him, or he'd stop his grog and shove him down the saloon skylight to keep his friend company.
 "Well, the second engineer thought and thought, and thought. Then he got leg of mutton and dangled il down the skylight on string till ii was under the table flap of old Chase me-Charley's sunbonnet. He couldn't resist it; he turned on his back, opened his mouth, and the hydrographer, who was ready with his gun, shot him clear through the heart"
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