Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-28
COULDN'T KILL THIS SHARK.
old Tar Cut Big Fish Into Bits, but
1t Came Back.

The shark lowered in the clear green
water, a ghostly gray shadow on our
starboard quarter. 1t had haunted the
wake Of the cable ship Kingfsher for
three days. 1 had a splendid hook,
but couldn't use it for fear of getting
the line tangled with the propeller,
says a writer in London Tit-Bits.
Lot of vitality these creatures
have" said the third officer, who had
joined me by the weather rail. II went
out Shaking once"
you went out whatY'
Catching sharks. The liver of q
shark, you must know, is full of an
oil that is just as good as cod-liver oil.
Well, we caught huge shark, hauled
him abroad, whipped out his liver, and
flung him back"
"Alive?"
Rather. You don't imagine we'd
sweat for half an hour eXterminating
the beast, do you? Besides you needn't
waste your sympathy. Listen. In five
minutes came a fierce pull at my line,
and up 1 hauled Old Johnny Liver
Pills"
1.-THE same shark?"
Exactly. Well, you can guess we
were rather vexed. Aboard we hauled
him again, took his heart and most
Of his clockworks out and dumped him
over once more. He had no more in
nard, l assure you, than a dried had
dock. 1 felt another pull at my line
the same old pull. I knew it, and
yelled to Billy SIocum, our Yankee
skipper, Hes at it again, Billy!"
1.-THE same shark?"
Exactly. Over the side he came
again, at the end o. the line. The
skipper clawed at his billygoat beard.
He was a trife put out. I never saw
shark SO set on being cotched,' says
he. we hain't an ak nor q gun; keep
him aboard we can't, and he's runnin'
the fishin' gropin' round us without
iites or liver, and soaring away every
decent fish in the seven seas. Take
that. Take that, void scarecrow,' and
he put the sharks eyes out, and we
dumped it over again.
well, my line hadn't been down
more'n minute when felt a nibbling
"a kind Of blind cropping, as it were
and I shouts to Billy Slocum, I've got
him again, Billyv
"'Be dashed to him. growled our
skipper. He must "a had spectacles
in his pocket, and we must "a overlook
n IL
"And you hauled the same old shark
on deckY"
How did you know that?"
II guessed. Go on"
He came on board fresh as a mack
erel, and frisking his tail as If to say,
Here we are again, boys!' Give me
the old saw out Of the after locker,
says Billy. I'm about sick of this
YER
What d'you want with the saw,
BillyY I said.
'Want' he snorted. I want to cut
its bloomin' head off,
"Well, he sawed away and sawed
away, and old Johnny Catch EN- Alive
o tapped his tail in a dreamy way, as
if his best girl was tanning him asleep,
and twisted bit sideways as If to say,
"A little bit more on this side, please,
where a fly's tickling me- and old
Billy Slocum sawed and sawed and
cussed and cussed till at last he got
the head apart from the body, and we
dumped the head to starboard and the
tail to port"
Il know, and they Joined together
and you caught them again.
you've evidently been reading some
lying magazine article about shark
fishing" answered our third Ananias,
land, as you seem to know such a lot
about the business, you may just finish
the story for yourself"