The sun., 1908-05-10
BRRF'S hair SURE DID RISE
THINGS HE SAW AFTER TIE Me-
,NAGERIE SHIP STRANDED.

Writhing PStbOpa. . BAbOon That, Drank
His WhlSkhy, q saFdania 4syena and
Other veXauOns fer a Poor Fisherman
--Dut MrS. Jerry says yRed Liquor"
II was very pleasant in hs,hVing room
Of the Bluepoint life saving station, twenty
miles east Of Fire Island light On'the Long
Island beach. The keeper, having re-
moved his shoes, settled himself back
In his seat with a restfil sigh 9oid
Perhaps you remember hatimghageris
ship that came ashore about three miles
10 the BASTARD on Long Cove last spring.
Yep, the Zanzibar sailing from, Africa and
Ind with a cargo OF beasts, handsome
and various. for the Bronx Zoo in New
York and maybe for few other eleemosy-
nary institutions. N
'She was hard aground for three days.
and during that time most Of the members
Of the cargo were brought ashore on the
beach In their crates and cages. They
were put on board again when the tugs
got the Zanzibar loose and all accounted
for, believe; at least / never heard any
complaint from the ships people that any
Of the creatures were missing
Il never gave the thing a. thought all
through the summer ill last September.
when JeTy. Hullem came over here one
day and declared with considerable and
fearful emphasis that mis- shack near Long
Cove, where he Stays some nights when
he's fishing or out on the bay, had been
surrounded all summar by unnatural ami
mails In the daytime and dreadful noises
at night
'Now you know Jerry. Hess a narrator
whose tales Il you believe en- are strong
evidence hat truth issthHnger than fiction.
But all the same theresWa a creep in his
voice when no told me this yarn last Sep
tember that set me wondering IL he wasn't
telling q little bit Of the truth for once In
his romantic life. And the way his hair
| bristled!
First thing he noticed, Jerry said, was
one day when he was eoHldsFing mending
his meta, He hadn,tkdf toeniending, you
see. but he was diligently ednsidering It
when he heard a loud sweaESord from the
clump Of holly trees about ahundred feet
back Of his shack .s'
Il do not think Jerry wis 50 much
shocked at the profanity as curious to
know who could by any chance be inthas
holly grove He got up 'and sauntered
over in the general direction from which
the swear word had come. What was the
swear wordi Well, Row | don't know az
Jerry said ,"r7.S
He got pretty close up to the trees
before be perceived a gray bearded. care
worn face eying him from the teetop.
| Jerry stood stock still for moment, then
| he said 'Hell6r but the face only continued
TO gase At him respectfully, CURIOUS but inn
! passive. .... ..- s.
There was a rustling in the urea. the face
| duoked hastily and our came another
| profane word. Then Jerry saw what II
] Eas-a monkey perched In tbetree.' Every
time the monkey moved he pticied himself
on the spiny holly leaves and that made
| him use bad language. 90, o., "a
Jerry Gaid be didn't know nov long
| he stood there fascinated watching that
| baboon or orang-outang or maybe gorilla
ewing him and Gver. and anoAo pttering
profanity He gave II up finally, Tor u
was surely q demoralizing sight, and Wept
back TO considering mending his pets.
THAT night as he laid his Afed frame
upon the narrow cot olose 20 theeooos stove
he couldn't fall asleep for thinking on that
DAQOOn, NulCn uu09nuAS'A rNTfNr NoNNf.'
from the Zanzibar when she came sshore IN
the spring Pretty soon he heard wild,
unoanny noise Was II the wild wind
sighingl ,,,r....,,,l., ,l.,,.hi,o
not merrily and light ,eartedly. but harshly,
Har. har, hAr-F. With a RitturaI note ana
a world Of irony and bitterness compressed
into each single syllable Az Jerry lay
there and listened to that sould Gthe hair
upon hla head took on. the semhlance OF
tbs fretful porcupine and he shiYered I'LL
hiS teeth click cd All night that wild.
sardonio meTriment went on jHst outsids
the door. and all night Jerry Ay there
shiyerlng TIL the gray light thIcughithe fog
hintsd at breakfast and y aeomtoFtlnRc cup o'
sOye, ais breakfast IN the 1shAk Jerry
! ds,Iied that this must be hyens That
meant that another monster hGd escaped
! from the msna gerie ship, AID Il two had
| broken forth and we're roaming the beach
il was likely that there we're more to reckon
with ,-...,,-,.
glass and started for the lookout IN front
ef the shack a forty foot poe than easy
chair fastened at the summit he sbehel1
huge, curying pythop ,YrSppeqo eround
! That was enough for Jerry He went
! bach IN the shs ck hurTiedly and lay on
] the floor a good part Of the day. v-
! sOp the following days Jerry say many
! Nghts. interesting perhaps from a scien-
/ tiho poipt OF view, but to Jetfy merely
| alarming and nothing more He felt him
! self prisoner In the shack and for the
! first time in yec rs he found hrnsea reading
the account OF Daniel in the lions, be9
The py thons subsisted on .tne, indige-
nous garter snakes and black asis kes, tor
! jerry saw a python swallowing b black
| sns ke one day. The black sAehe, TeposinG
an the crost Of a beae plum, bush, leaped
! high in the cir et the constrictor u was
A good fght, but the python worked ieisureiy
| AZ the task Of obtaining its dinner and the
! HACK snake never had chanes sT-A
srhe baboon grew 50 buia taais Eevera
| times II entered Jerry 8 cabin ybop pc mad
ventured outside for q few. InoTRSTits, On
| ona Of these occasions II swallowed the
/ oontents OF a bottle OF whiskey @ftth Jerry
kept for medicine and became thoroughly
| drunk sr.-rs',yry Ai"a
he found the drunken ,baboop. he seized
| him with delight and threw htll out OF
| doors. where one or the pyAfoneidetour
him with smackins Hlitsl and s'.hicking
tongue. ,tt - t.Ya3L l..
the roaring surf they would dahoe at sur
rise. for Sh the world, A. nono ~. can
make IL, lie the Dance Of Haa 10 4kipling's
jungle Book. ;, These5fSats SoAld Yriggle
10 the sand then lifting cQntortAd dbodles
spirsIs and many stdea' h9,lfes Hssolving
| ona into the Other Sf'i1NEL sftqn7cr
IL was fearful d iRhL 20 JeryNe and made
an indolibls impression upon hgn. Oi all