Show mr L recently I 1 y returned from a ni whaling haling voyage tells the he following touching narrative on the home trip of one of our new york and liverpool packets she being efio crowded with emigrants that awful an ful scourge the ship fever broke out the carpenter of the vessel one of natures noblemen and hiving 7 on board his little son a lad of twel twelve ve summers was wa gnp of ohp first iric victims tims his ship mates sadly enclosed the body dahis in his hammock and having read over him the burial services services had bad attached to his feet a grind stone for the purpose of sini enking cinn it it committed it to the embrace of old ocean cean the poor boy filled with vv ith grief at the loss of his natural na ural protector sprang overboard and before he could be rescued he be was beyond the reach of human aid on the day following the burial a large shark was noticed in in the wake of the ship and as it was almost calm the sailors asked permission to catch it it which was readily granted by the captain having procured a hook I 1 and attached a chain and line and baited it it with atwith pork they cast it overboard and soon had the excited pleasure of hooking the monster and with the nid id of the windlass they hauled the writhing writhing wi lining mass on board As it lay la ou on the deck in its ita death struggles the sailors heard a noise noise that seemed to proceed from within the dying captive taking tal ing a they the soon cut their way into the now nov dead fish and to their great surprise ur found that it it had swallowed the carpenter grindstone and son and that the torm form er who had swooned had rigg rigged ed up the grindstone and with the assistance of the boy to turn it it was grinding his bis jac jackknife knife to cut his way out |