The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-22

eeas q q: East vas Yn Z ysyass from
kauFi gum. Whether James BARLEY wa
much think the reverend gentleman u
being made the victim Of = handsome hoax.
Apparently the story axes its origin AZ
Bonn, and ! shouldn't DO much surprised
II some Of the undergraduates OF that uni
versity-college boys are the same all over
the world-hadn't made the Rev. A. Lukyn
Williams their victim.
-Whalers don't take the trouble 70 dis
embow0l the big fish, said Mr.. Street.
They slice on the blubber and turn the
carcass loose. Besides that, everybody
knows that a whales gullet h. 80 small
that IL has TO feed on anlmalcul@, and
couldn't swallow Ap animal bigger ChAn
a cat. The Rev. Mr.. Williams ought to
read up on his natural history
The opinions Of Bill Butler, A. B., may
be not without interest. Mr.. Bullcr was
In the bar OF a sailors boarding house
near Gouverneur Lane and South street
when a SUN reporter seeking whale lore
.Hi, Bill" said the cOckney barkeep,
-'Ere's a young gent a. wants to know
about wales. Can't yer obliReH"
wales, IL it2" said Mr.. Butler: cycling
the reporter. Him yer man. Spin ANY,
| young un."
Mr.. Buffers eyes wandered toward the
bar and he smacked his lips meaningly:
The hint having been taken, he composed
himself to listen to Prof. Konig's account
Of the adventure OF James Barley:
"Ho,' said Mr.. Butler. Hi shipped on
that weasel two seasonsl Good obd tub
she were, too.
But then" read the reporter from Konig's
letter. what was their astonishment when,
on opening the stomach Of the whale, they
found their missing oomrade, James Bart
ley, entombed alive, but unconscious, in the
mammals belly
g a hoaxin' OF that ere chapling. Dye
ear that, Tom. wot the young gent is
readin'7'
Through the action Of the gastric juics
OF the whale the skin Of this modern Jonah
has become like parchment, but his genera
health has not been seriously impaired
by his enforced sojourn in the quarter In
question" the reporter went on.
Quarter hin question" repeated MI
Butler. -Wot may that be, young fellerl"
whales belly" said The Sum man
Nov what do you think Of that, Mr.. BulIer?'
-Hi think said the seaman after NJ
think it's a shyme to hoax persons that way
'Ere's the wy of il. Some jolly dog comes
ashore with that yarn and springs Il on Z
reporter, begging your parding. The re
porter 9 goes and writes i Tor MS paper anS
hat professor sees IL n swallers 1t down
Git out yer note book and pencil and Hi
make things strife. Hi am willin' to 81
quoted.
Hi know OF two n twenty reasons W :
a vale carn't swaller a man. First, N
couldn't and that's all the reason necessary
Hive united wales fer goin' on INVENT.
year and l know EN- like l do Toms ole
parrot there. They feeds on bugs, younl
I'm, little bugs yer can 'ardly see with TIN
naked hi. 1t would tyke a million OF EN-
to I'LL a pipe. Hi wish Hi may die II Hi didn'
see a vale try TO swaller a chunk OF sal
pork one time, nice little vale he we're toe
friskin' in the wake Of our ship, and
came near ~stranglin' OF him. e spit /
out and went aw'y, lookin' behind reproach
full like. A wales gullet amt no bigge
tina my wrist. tyke me word for It. n
know. Someun's been a hoaxin' OF tina
parson."
Mr.. Butler evinced a disposition towar,
autobiography, autobiography favored wit
strange tales and undiluted rye whis
key, so THE SUN man departed. In tn
main, as may be seen in any good naturs
history, Mr.. Butler was correct.
Somebody must have been "A hoaxir
OF that parson,"