The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-07-16
SQUID AND WHALE


morning. came there was no sign of
wind, and the watch was washing
down decks when strange thing hap.
pened.
The brig was suddenly lifted up and
thrown on her beam ends. and strlg-
Cling out from under her bottom, but
held alongside ON the port side. came
a whale sixty feet long and gigantic
sQuid or octopus. The whale had one
of the squid's tentacles In his mouth
and was tearing at 1t. while the seven
others were wrapped around him like
so many ropes.
Before we had recovered our wits
the brig was on level keel and under
way again, and never did craft have
/ a stranger tow. The squid released
/ two Of his arms and attached them to
/ the forward keel Of the brig. while the
I Others held even tighter than before,
/ and away we went through the water
at the rate Of five or six miles an hour,
the whale doing the towing aud the
/ squid acting as tow rope.
When the big fish found himself fast
/ alongside he was terribly frightened.
and. as for us, we didn't propose to
run any risk 10 chop him loose. From
a O'clock I'm the morning I'm 10 nj
night we were lowed 20 the south aud
almost I'm n straight course Twenty
different times In TINT interval tho
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