The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-05

drew near, the shark rushed blindly upon it and by sheer bulldog ferocity seized and held it. The ray doubled, dashed the enemy with its whip-like ! tail. then doubled and flung its sharp fserrated spines against the shark. in- ficting wound that was followed by pink cloud that slowly permeated the water. The beadlike expressionless eyes of the man-eater turned inward almost out of sight, but in no way did he exhibit pain; he held on, gripping harder, scenting the blood fiercely. tasting the flesh of his victim. When the ray became passive he swung it, grtpped it again, and bearing down upon it, tore and lacerated it, striking down the weed with powerful blows of his tail. sending the earyfshes dash 1 ing across the submarine mesa.
 Engaged in this fierce attack, the man-eater was suddenly struck. knock | ed aside by sand-shark twice his size; but he circIed about with savage menace, retreating only when fairly put to flight by the opponent. Every night now he foraged, learning that tlEdIlg dl dlllI4tdlo AGEd tltsoAAA AiA NAAAS | land of plenty. In all his wanderings the man-eater never exhibited any fn- terest in a certain locality; he never returned to the same place twice. He 1 had no sense of location, no mental action that gave him an interest in a ] locality sufficient to produce a desire to return, no memory beyond that wnich blood produced. He slept or rested when he grew weary, and often swan continuously for days; at times at the surface. when his fin would make broad showing above the water, cutting it like a knife. He swan on, eternally on, but generally in circle : an instinctive movement, which kept l him near the lagoon.
 At the, end of three years the man. eater was six feet in length, He had l increased prodigiously in bulk, was es- i pecially heavy just behind the head, which was enormous and threatening. When his jaws gaped, as they some- times did to throw out some parasite
 an array of teeth would be seen, the front row uprignt,. pure white, larger than mans thumb nail and perfect | triangles, their edges like saws. Back of these were ten or twelve rows of similar teeth lying flat in the mouth, unsuspected, but called into action when blood was tasted and some vic tim attempted to escape; then all these fierce knives sprang erect and sank into the flesh of the enemy, making
 escape impossible.
 The shark had changed in many es- sentials. He was lighter in color, nearly white beneath; the upper lobe of the tail was longer; 1.-the and cap-
 able of remarkable power; but the eyes
 now appeared smaller and were, if any
 thing more inexpensive, and gray. The
 motion was dignif1ed, yet there was the
 same peculia: swing given by the tail,
 and when he wished to turn the mas
 sive head was jerked sl'o>'ly in the given direction and the vung to
 meet it. He had now sever. boon com
 panions. Three or four renoras had
 joined partnership with him, fishes
 about foot in length, black, with a
 peculiar sucker on the top of the head
 When weary of following the shark
 they merely attached themselves by
 the sucker to his back and were lowed ialong. The others were several little
 striped pilot fishes, which hid beneath
 the sharks head They were very l 1Cs0ntinIIad oY1 Page TweIve1