The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-09-10
Baby Whale
M0yHdUeGOt
YeLIOW Pup
Nuts Name John, but Maybe
He's Playing OFF as
Jonah.

This knotted and twisted and
tangled tale of the sea and the
Jungle and eighty whales and a yell
low dog and jaguar with the accent
on the jag was brought into the sober
port OF New York this morning by
the somewhat distracted good ship
Tlvlves OF the Unlted Fruit line. Let
the ships barber tell II. His name
is Jihn TerstenJalr.
Were from down around Central
America and we made a call at Santa
Marta, Columbia" said Truthful John
three miles this side Of the three
mile limit, "an' we got 1os passengers
on board. 1 always like to be Rc-
curate about these little details be-
cause 1t makes the main yarn sound
more convincing.
''At Santa Marta a bunch OF tho
passengers went ashore for q picnic
and climbed n hill. All Of n sudden
the crowd was stormed by q female
jaguar, which chased 'cm all the way
back TO the ship, an everybody won
uefA Wnut HlulAANh lAo hNNeaAch ~ ANNA
ously rage, as 81. John puts 1t.
"'I know says a native, who acted
as gu de. IT'S because I stole the
tigers cub, an here It Is An he
pulls the squrming cub out Of his
blouse and sells It to me for s. In
American money.
"You see, wanted II because I'm
ctartlng a jaguar farm down ht Sho-
hola Glen, Pa, where l spend my pay
and my shore leave. 1 already had
male jaguar cub by the name Of
Toby, which Ia the FIRST name OF
Bettuher, the chief deck steward.
well, Toby the steward don't fancy
the idSa Of having Toby the jagged
jaguar named after him. so he goes
ashore at Carthagena and gets a yell
low Carthagenian dog which Is n mutt
and which he names John because
that's my name an he wants TO get
me sore.
presently the yellow dog, which
has been fairly we'll scratched UP by
the ships he-cat, decides TO Take on
Toby the cub, which Is easy because
the skipper has put Toby in irons
for unbecomin' conduct an Toby cant
fight back much.
! But one day Toby gets loose and
he an the cat, being blood relations
as you might say and good friends.
start a joint offensive against the
pup, which is so badly routed that
without KNOWN what he's dom. he
jumps overheard which brings US,
gentlemen, to the subject Of whales.
Il told you the pups name was
John, didn't II Well you can't expect
whales to be good spoilers, an IT'S ten
10 one that a whale in the infant class
wouldn't see much difference between
John and Jonah. Reasonable. ain't
M
Anyway yesterday morning, about
200 miles out o. this dry port John
y. Archer, ships pursuer, sights a
baby whale actin as IL 1t had a stom-
ach ache.
"Must have swallowed poor John.
surmises Mr. Archer.
"A minute or two later the ship "a
simply surrounded by whales all
youngsters, none of 'em more than
thirty feet long, clumsy an klttepish
bumpin' their noses against the ship
tryin' to get their tales tngled UP In
the propeller, an generally conductin
themselves in manner not condu.
GIVE to tranquil navigation.
''nhey bothered us for half an hour
or more before we anaged to give 'en
the slip, and the purser. who Is good
at arithmetic, says he counted eighty
OF 'em.
"Well, here we are an I've stN go
my jaguar an the yellow dog IL pre-.
, sumably done for an likely enough &C
is the foolish whale that swallowed
, him"
! A. skinny yellow dog was seen run
= ming into q bar room not far from th'