Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-01-09
SAW THE RAvENoUS FISH DRAFTING
 TOWARD ME-"

stands out as unique. All during the summer months he worked as an engi- neer on a dredge boat which piled up and down the bayous emptying into the gulf of Mexico, and it was during this term Of service that he met the terror and skipped it by the margin of a hairs breadth.
 Life on q drelge boat is not an ideal existence by any means" said the hero of the adventure, and soon grows so inonotonous that it is hardly tolerable. in fact, were it not for the few chance haDs and hazards that come our way think We would die of ennui
 1t is of one of those hazards that 1 want to tell you, q hazard that, as 1 look back upon it now, makes cold sAivels play up and down my back.
 Il was virtually ill the jaws of a man eating shark, a great ravenous monster, sees;ing to appease it's appetite, and here am 1, alive and well.
 Our boat lay at the mouth of one of the bag ous that pour their flood into the restless southern sea within few miles of that picturesque spot, Grand isle. We Were far enough up the stream to escape the pound and rush of the great waves which throw whitecaps skyward out in that waste of greenish waters, but we could see the ocean. hear it's weeping, moaning sob, and the melancholy, dirge-like sound seemed to call us and infect us with a desire for plunge into those surges.
 Il was one of those who listened to the voice of the sea, hearkened to the weird call, and the wild desire pos sessed me for swim in those mighty waves. The surf washing on the beach in long, zigzagging lines of white yeasty foam we could see from the deck of our anchored steamer, and to our ears came the swishing, pounding boom as each wall of water, urged in by never weakening force, spent itc energy in climbing the stretch of yellow sand and sprayed itself in flashing showers on the unyielding shore.
 "Ihe temptation to swim in that great sea was not to be resisted. NJ blood tinsled 1t the sight and sound 0 it. and I obtained the captains permis sion to use the yawl to row over to th, island.
 "'Going for q swim, Reese? be al. ed. and Wifeil I gave an affirmative rn ply ha said that the surf bathing along the bench ot the isslnd was maguiji cont. bet tlt3t i, W15 dangerous to z too far oas 3aaau32 of the sharks hea1' tHe ae5esf et tlae sharks ts.t1r= F}lt Ns'sn't 5seail, not iatoH tzii.s y9 i.' ,.zse.i '=3.fe il " 6aep Water. alsl = l 25,mei fbe alif osi f.4m tha '2e 1o.ut.i a.ee 3.5-b-o 9!- s,zi .ae t:.s- N .ep9 e}ne.
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 'I5 s9as e9eH.ag. d glorious sGmneg e..anias #lth .i stiff breeze sweeping acl9sas jhe a ma from out at sea, and {. mellow moon f'6ing high in the heav- enS and b9tillng the Br02d oXpan2e III sl,ilaa,e,i.,ce. ;;lvcr light. and V'e all as we gazn@l | the gulf, casting off {. glistenirg spray that looked like coun@-s less millions of diamonds. and at tEs heavy line black shadows cast by the thick gr ;eS near the beach. could not but n rcc:ate the magnificent splendor of 4e scene.
 But somewhere out in that sea