The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-04-07
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81 hm came up g tremendous ehara
with bis side sticking out Bs IL he bad
| cargo inside over and above his regular
hin o iadlug
Ii wgs thaR as clear 10 as as the uoss
Oh our faces that poor BIN had Owed
clean down rs throat
The poor Ola mau had tx RICH
away. and we carried him below and
/ put him IN bis hammock and then ran
| TAP on deck again ln the hope that we
should he able 70 catch the fellow
Bus 1t was nowhere to be seen, SO
( after watching some time 10 no pur
/ pose we went down below "a see how
I the old man WINS getting on, and TO our
/ establishment aud sorrow we found his
| body nearly cold and as stiff as the fly
Ing ilbboom
/ We sewed him mp in his hammock.
| putting the grindstone that he used to
| grind his tools with inside to make it
sink. and laid the body on batch. with
/ the union jack spread over it for pail
Then the skipper read the funeral
| service, all of us standing round dread
fully cut up, me especially, for young
Bill was my messmate and | was very
fond Of the old man
As soon as the skipper bad finished
the last words. which I shall never
forget-they was so solemn-the hatch
was tipped up and overheard the body
went with a splash. and all was over
at least, we thought so
But almost Immediately afterward
up comes another shark-a bigger one,
it seemed, than the first-certainly it |
was thicker.
The boatswain at once ran for the |
shark hook and baited it with junk
of pork and slung it over the stern |
and it was not many minutes afore we |
had him hooked and hauled on deck
Well, the first thing we did was to |
cut his tail off, for he was tapping IT
about so that it shook the ship from |
stem to stern, and we were afraid il
would shake her to pieces.
After we had done that we thought !
we heard a very strange noise inside of |
him-a sort o grating sound, like a |
boat being dragged over a shingly
beach
So we set to and cut off his head
and then ripped him up, when, what
dye think, what should we see, to our
great establishment and delight, but
Bill and his father sitting upright like
| two Jonahs, the youngster turning the
| grindstone and the old man sharpen
ing his knife. intending to cut their
way out of the creatures belly.
You say l said the old man was
dead. Please don't interrupt me. and
I'll tell you all about it.
There's no doubt but what he seem
froze with horror, and the shark warm.
ed him to life again.
What made him most uncomfortable.
Bill said. was the sipperiness and
! topsyturvyness of the place, for there
/ was no rest at all, for one minute he
was standing on his head and the next
on his feet and then tossed from one
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| damned between its ribs, and he won.
| dered the meal didn't disagree with
the fish itself
But at last came the climax, ard Bill
thought 1t was all over with him, for
down in it's throat was shot a heavy
body like q sack o. Goals right atop of
him, nearly smotheriug him. SO that
he had scarcely room TO move or
breathe and he must have been some
time msensihle. he said, when he was
woke up boy % loud report
lie thought for moment the crea-
ture had swallowed "a powder barrel
aud ir had exploded. but &c was only
The bursting ot the canvas shroUd the
old man was scwrd up in. which had
blown up lke paper bag
The up.-. .a It's Inside BIN said.
must have as,nu,sbed the shark. FOR be-
again found himself standing upon his
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