Show traditions antiquity al ofilio tile belief in the eals tence leuce of le alib sta sea serpent summer bummer is is the time ot of year when the monster ophidian of the sen ba gius gins his bis linnual cavor tings stop atop the waves wavea this ilia evasive it asive creature has baa come to be one ot of the th necessary neL eBsary tea foa tures of it a weil veil organized summer and it t to la decidedly an off year when bis bill archaic is is not seen sporting gp orting with the fancy curls ol of the semi emi tranquil atlantic the rhe visions visions of tho the serpent last year wore were nut not altogether clear nud and decisive that which passed for him turned out to be a dreamily drifting I 1 log og with A tuft anft of sea weed caught in it iti branches au an artisti cand circumstantial liar did to 0 b be e sure u r 0 e come 0 m e t to 0 t the h resane at the I 1 tag a g e end di d 0 of t t the 1 le s season e a s C n with an attempt i to 0 I 1 lasso asso the fantasy of the beer batery brain but the simon pura para artia article vouched couched for by reliable testimony tei was not sighted the rhe chances are therefore 0 1 very largely in in favor of his sinuous excel lency being solo acon in in reassure reas suri u g numbers this propitious summer ai ly is is it to be hoped this timo time noted m mystery of the he deep will show enough respect to aba a age of reason and dis covery to 0 o let at himself be discovered unmistakably before the close cloea of the present century and we doubt it if he be could select a better time for clearing up age existing eristin doubts than this par nicular summer Bu maier belief in the existence of the ee e serpent is is as ancient as aa marine marine history aristotle pliny and others of that antique period ph philosophically ilos optically accepted tales of him an and as I 1 long as aa A D he bo was carved in in stone as an evidence of faith ot of his bis actual being lie he has been spotted at odd times down the ages rod and get in in to positive history as aa early as 1565 1555 after havi having dg survived in in scandinavian tradition tor for a thou sand years olaus magnus archbishop of or upsala kupsala a good and pious man not unduly given to pre yanca tion gives very straightforward ifor ward accounts of several sea monsters of the snake order one ona of which was im impudent enough to reach up dp and take a man out of a full rigged single master llev hang hana egede in in 1631 0 naw aw a serpent that raised itself out ot of the tha water ant antil its ita head reached above our oar main top and though we may malco make reasonable allowances allowance lilor for th the exaggerations of fear there is is a mm min cuteness of description that seems to make the pinch of salt superfluous no as bishop Bont of norway do da scribes in in his bis book of natural history a sea serpent 19 six alx lx hundred feet long as big around as two hogsheads hog these are substantial balbutin be ba butin but in these latter days we bare the testimony of captain eleazer crabtree that be saw in in penobscot bay a serpent one hundred feet long in 1808 a dead monster fifty five feet long ten feet in circumference and having six six paddle like logo legs was washed ashore on the co chaat net of one of the orkney islands at intervals since then there have b been a n appearances so well vouched couched foe for r that t caien ien men have been mu much ch perplexed how bow to reconcile ile their skepticism as to a ba alfida sea serpent with the un no mistake pabla abla some things that show up in in such provoking fashion I 1 the truth isthan his alleged snake shi ship 11 p never comes within range rane for close observation and learned men are now of the opinion that the snake is is really a giant squid squids have hav been cap capture tural that measured fifty five feet in in length these monsters mon stere when swimming BW imming propel themselves backward trailing their long bring arms after them so that at a distance thy might readily bo ba mistaken for genuine se serpents until the serpent consents to come nto into port for inspection the skeptical are warranted in in doing tra ira the ind indignity goity of believing that it bag baa no other basis for this monster ophidian than the back scuttle of a squid |