The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-29
rom the New York Sun.

FROM the New YORK sun.
w HALEs,e said Shipper Bill
w spinks of the little schooner
Gussie, which is lying in the
stream off Liberty Island, whales is
curious fish
What I wants. to tell about is the
school that we seen off the Jersey coast
this last trip. Biggest school ever 1 see
so big l guess I almost ought to call
1t university and 1 would, only folks
generally says school. which is just one
more proof that whales is fish.
There they was swimmln' about us
most all the time south of tho Dol we've
l}reakwater and this side o the Frying
Pan Shoals. Some times they was elose
aboard and then they would haul away
10 the nor ard and we wouldn't see elm
for a day or so; but they always come
lack and we brought em with us clean
Up to the Hook
81 tried mighty hard to get one or two
Of EN- to come along inside SOS | could
send one to to the fish circus at the Bat
terry. where Jenny Lind used to sing, and
get another to go down to Coney, SOS
folks could see for themselves that
whales is fish.
but / didn't have no luck this time
Soon as / can get this cargo o logwood
ont the Gussie. back I am going off
the Jersey shore an make deal to get
that whole blamed school near some sum
mer hotel Guess 1t will pay better'n
lllulng logwood, an the Gussie's too
d lrned slow to go after bananas. They'd
get ripe and rot in her hold before she
could make Tybee light.
"Thinlz | am talkin through this old
ill H. a,,J
there amt nobody what knows better
what to do than | does That school is
tained and l can do pretty much what
please with It, Couldn't get 1t to come
IN side the Hook, of course, because it was
q raid that ] might turn 1t into whale
lone stuff: but since they has seen that
] nm straight-laced and won't do no moan
tr cks | can get 1t to play around a sum-
msr hotel as easy as fallin off a bow
spirit in a gale of wind. You'll see that
] can tell the truth
Il was sitting on the taffrail the other
nj sht, smoking my pipe after supper
W EN- one O. that school skins up along
sile and cocks his eye up at me as much
as to say that he would like to make
FRI ends The fellow at the wheel was
keeping his eye on the peak of the fore
sal steering by the wind, and didn't see
It. else ! could prove it; but that whale
certainly did wink and what is more
he said 'Hellor
Now that's a whole lot for some
whale to do, but this fellow did. and [
answered him back good as ! could
though | can't speak much whale talk.
However. we fixed it all up and he's go
ing to get the rest of the bunch to go
IN the business of showing themselvesg
OF hotels There is lot Of money to
be made out Of it, and the whales won't
have to go off up north in the winter
time to be hunted to death by whalers.
All they will have to do will be to go
down to Florida and the West Indies
aud swim about while ] goes ashore and
co ects from the proprietors of the no.
teli.
BY and by we can extend our bust
ness to whales in all parts of the world
] tlink that III go up in Wall street and
see If I can't get the company capitalized
Seems to me it would be good way to
flo It bonds and then folks couldn't make
no nasty remarks about watering stocks
and about sharks. Whales is what they
would be dealing in, and, of course, the
whales couldn't be without water. Which
Is another proof that they is fish and not
ma nmals.
et'he more think this over the bigger
It all seems and sometimes it seems that