Show I 1 ortilio Or eliuk bisesi Bis tast hi ahti in ft company of congenial spirits the conversation tut bcd on sharks thice scavengers of the sea their voracity staying qualities anil ability to swallow anything and everything that came their way was discussed nt some length A young joau had uever been to sea said he had 1 read stories of monster man eating sharks following shied for weeks accompanied by an aching which able seamen alone could ill with any decree cf satisfaction to he shark he also rend of a bailor aho vho was on deck ono dy d y grinding hia knife wild a boy turning the stone when ip gave n sudden lurch the outfit went overboard and vas su allonen by alo shark 1 lie bailor anil ilia boy kept nt work knife U a aar edse cut bleir hay out of the and were licked hii by a boat lowered from thee hip the kianof wars man said that etory was a little too improbable but that hu could lell one within thebo unda of reason when our ship was ill honolulu he daiil 1 was ashore one day ia thu laun cli a small used for conveying officers and sailors to and from the ship we were lying at the dock and when the engineer attempted to start hid engine on the trip she refused to work thinking perhaps that a rope or something had furled the propeller the engineer looked over the stern and found that a monster shark had swallowed the wheel and though we prodded the cusa with boat hook it refused to disgorge the caal birou delicacy wo then slewed tho boat around and heading for tho ship a mile distant wo managed by jabbing the fish with boat boaks to make it furnish motive power and thus got under nay swain stood at the tiller and altered for the chip but just as we got alongside the veasel the shark gave a sudden lurch broke the propeller short iff at the bearing and got away it i I 1 v |