The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11
Upside Down At the Bottom of the Seq.

CAPITAL diving story is to1t
 ~ in an English school paper by
 man signing himself "An Anna
 teur Diver"
 markable process of nature evers third male person is born a diver
 Whitstable Is the place where mos divers grow, and where caught tht temptation to go a-diving myself oid divers, but met with 5eers and suspicion. But Whftstabae never pro- duced diver that could put ms off I bought diving dress, and got per- mission to go down and anause my self on sunken eoasting vessel ly- ing of shore little distance.
 le was noble diving suit, and the new india rubber squeaked musleally as | moved, and smeit very refresh ing. There was a shield~shaped plate, rather like label on s decanter, hanging on my chest, and noble metal collar - about thirty-two the size would have been. on the usual scale.
 had also a very fetching red night cap, while my helmet was a terror to all beholders. l don't mind con- fessing to certain amount of discom- fort while they were building me up in this dress-partly due to a vivid imagination. The helmet made me think of the people in the story who put hot pots on the heads of stran- gers, and seemed stififnS at once.
 All Ready for the Descent.
 There wasn't much comfort to be got out of the leaden shoes--try a pair for yourself and see-but when all was ready, l made a shift to get overheard and to crawl slowly down
 It was not great deal of the outer world that I could see through my windows, and hung on to that lad der with soaething of desperate .1nr ka11 stretched away level around my win. dows, thens I confess, I hesitated for q moment. But made the next step with certain Involuntary blink, and I was under water.
 All the heaviness-or most of it, had gone 6ut of my feet, and all my movements partook of q curiously easy. yet slowtsh character after ali cape valve bubbled meFrily, and I tried to think of myself as a plunaed knight striding among the fishes. You do think of the siiliest things on cer- tain cheerful occasions.
 It was not as long as it seemed before was on the wreck and down below in the nearest hold. Regular professionals had already beAn at work, and access to different parts of the ship had been made easy.
 Now, in this big hold were an i'm. mense number of barrels, stood on end and packed tightly together-bar- ESls 0h VIAs 10 Judge from eXferuQls. tried to move one, but plainly they were all damned tightly together. and not one would budge.
 took the light axe, with which I had provided myself, using it alter nately as wedge and lever, and at last felt the barrel move. I had eer- tainly loosened it, and I pulled up the axe with the intention of tryinr to lift the barrel, when suddenly I was ingulfed in an awful convulsion, as of many earthquakes in a free hghtf
 The world vas a mob of bouncing oil barrels, which hit me everywhere. saults, and finally found myself stag gering at the bottom of the hold, and staving at the roof, whereunto ali the barrels were sticking, like balloons, ab. solutely blocking up the hatchway above me.
 What was this? Some demoniac practical joke of flends inhabitlng this awful green sea about me2 Were