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Show "Sew Fol'ndlaxd fisherman have i seen a veritable devil tUh inferior in ! no respects to the monster described by Victor Hugo in his "Toilers of the fea." Ji was discovered ofl St.Johns, and wiLs li fly or sixty feet in length ft ith a tail ten feet across and a beak "the size of a six-gallon keg." It struck a boat with this frontpieec and twined it arms about it when one of the fishermen seized an axe, and cut portions of two of them off, his comrades then pulling shore-ward for dear life. One of the pieces mea-,-unxl sis feet, and the other nineteen. nine-teen. Both are immersed in .-pints and preserved in H. John's museum, Ihe officials whereof testify to the truth of the story. |