Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-23
WISE WHALES IN LAPS SEA.
Maybe They Could Explain Recent
 Torpedo Disasters,

 street shipping office, particularly after they had taken cruise of hun- dred knots Or so at the rate of twenty knots an hour, and had absorbed may be ton Or two of the crustacae on which they feed. Then they were ready for an after dinner nap, and want to tell you that if anything woke them out of it they were ten times madder than hurricanes and just tore things.
 Whenever one of them whales | wanted a nap it would turn over on its side and let the waves rock it to sleep. And they slept sound, too, for tunately, for that enabled Us to milk the COW whales before we harpooned them. Many is the time I've sat in a boat and milked she whale while she was taking snooze like that, Just like you might milk q cow.
 Whales milk is the richest milk that any animal gives, and only II enough Of it could be got it'd drive cod liver oil clean out of the market. A 1 good, healthy she whale with sucking cubs, would give down a barrel or milk any time. and then we'd have a feast as was a feast, after nara days work
 Mentioning she whales and their
 
 i the move she travels fast, and no mat ter how far she is going she doesn't stop second until she gets there, not even to feed her cubs, which are not weaned until the baleen--them strain CT things that you call whalebone- | appears in their upper jaws.
 Taking it's pap and at the same l time travelling at steam engine speed, would be something a trifie hard for a whale cub to do if it had to take in 1 it's provender mouthful at time, like young pigs and other sucking land mammals do.
 | But nature has built these whales on a different plan. The whale moth | CT is put together so that she can give her cub it's meal all at one jab, so to speak; although nothing less than q gallon of milk will even begin to ease up on whale cubs appetite. The teat of the female whale is a regular force pump. When the young whale, speeding along at its moother's S side, through the water, gives notice that it is hungry, and seizes. the lacteal fount the mother sets the force pump in motion and the whole supply of milk needed by the cub is shot into l it, the cubs throat and stomach be- ing cut and fitted to this style of get l ting dinner
 'One time we milked a monster, of a she whale as she lay asleep off the Japan coast and we got nearly two barrels of milk Her two cubs were playing around all the while we were doing it. The whale was sound asleep when we got through, and she l was so tremendous big that we con 1 cluded not to harpoon her until she woke up naturally, for to have her sleeping-mad and harpoon-mad at the same time we feared would put more vim in her than we cared to have her l come at us with.
 I've captured one of her cubs, q though, and took it to the ship, think ing to make a pet of it-a mascot, l s'pose they'd call it nowadays.
 1 We put it in a tank of salt water land went back to see if it's mother had got through her nap yet. She had and she was madder blame sight than if We had woke her up by sinking 4 a. harpoon into her. She was raging over the Kidnapping of her cub and bore down on us like locomotive. We got her, though, but only aIter the hardest fight that any boats crew had with a whale.
 Seeing that she was doomed she killed the other cub with one swoop ,l of her duke. That one she was bound shouldn't be of any use to 2us,9 and it
 wasn't It was smashed flat. t@ And we soon found that we were in a fix as to the whale cub we had
 taken aboard. We had plenty of milk for it, but it couldn't take it in. We
 were sorry, because we couldn't bear to see the poor creature starye tc
 death in the midst of plenty, which ii l s111rn nJrvr hox ,c Y : Gosh, canny Scotch sailor, hadn't
 been one of us
 ' Sandy was an old whaler, and he : had learned lot by experience, among that lot being the fact that there were , better and easier ways of cleaning
 deck of whale litter, after a cuttingAuL
 and slowing, than the back-breakine
 scrubbing with'a mop. Sandy's way
 was big tin squirt-gun that held : good ships bucket full. With that full om hot suds he could squirt tnlngs
 ship-shape in no time.
 While we were bemoaning the fate of the whale cub, Sandy brought ou his squirtgun, sucked it full of whales milk out of the barrel-the cubs moth CTS milk, it was. too-put it's spout if ' the cubs mouth and shot bucketfu 7 of milk down into the creatures , paunch in jiffy { 'sThe cub was saved and we were
 relieved, but that barrel or two o
 milk wasn't going to last long, and i , behooyed us to get another supply ol f the cub would starve to death, after
 all-and, belay its rngrateful natur'
 we'd ought to let it starye.
 Just before the last squirtgun oi milk was gone we sighted school ot
 whales, and three of 'em were big sht ones, sound asleep. Here was not onl, our chance for good supply of milk but for d whole cargo of blubber ant $ bone. 5 'The whale cubs tank was close Ill
 alongside the gllnwale. We iabbet ? the last squirt of milk we had into tht ? cub and got readyto send boats out tc take the whales. But listen! Tha
 ungrateful cub had sighted then , whales, too, and as soon as it had en . gulfed all the milk we had it gave {
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