Show SHARK I AS CHICKEN THIEF Jumped Fences and Entered Henhouse Hen-house Through Hoi in Rear Story of Equinoctial Season It la not often that n shark breaks Into u mans henroost and steals his 1 chickens Such a case however Is on record at P Polntcalair Emmet Hlnglo told the story ns he showed a visitor around his falhcrn hack yard which was Cull of lively and Intelligent young chickens Mr illlnglo has only had a few years experience as a lawyer law-yer Ills veracity Is therefore unquestioned unques-tioned IIo Introduced the mutter by remarking 11T lost a great number or our chickens chick-ens last year by a shark AVhlte 01 colored 7 asked the visitor Incredulously A shark Jlmna shark from the gulf eight feet long Did he walk all the dislanoe or come In n fish car The affair Is not as Impossible as you are Inclined to believe icmarked Mr Illogic In an aggrieved tone You notice the loveo I In front of the house Well each year during the equinoctial season a strong southeast wind blows the waters of the gulf Into Polnlealn Tlarhc and floods the town The water Is three or four foot deep Ve have to 50 In skiffs from the front of the house lu the levee Tall year as usual I when the floods commenced we drove all mil chickens Into he big henhouse Naturally when the Hood became deep they could not come down to eat In order to feed them we rigged up I a rope parallel to each roost and slqWIy pulled a basket of corn from one end to the other In this way the chickens had to eat standing upI I up-I did not know that chickens overate over-ate sitting down or In a reclining position posi-tion Interjected the visitor Bow eel that may have been their custom during the days of the Romans It was only a method of expression continued Mr Illogic I mennl that the chickens stood on the roost and ate the corn as It passed before them In the basket Well we had been feedIng feed-Ing them In this way for a few days when we noticed that they had begun to diminish In number We then began to count each morning and found that four or five disappeared each night Wo finally decided to watch I riggedmy self ui a platform In the chlckenhouse and went out to spend the night From 10 oclock until 4 I nothing happened and I was becoming pretty well tired thinking think-ing probably that the nogro who had been robbing our henroost had seen mo and would not make another attempt while J was there As the gray light began to dawn however I heard a series of splashes and looking toward the rear I saw a large shark Jumping the fences aa If they had been hurdles Naturally I was very much surprised When the shnrk had Jumped over our fence he disappeared under the water J was looking all around for him when I heard a noise In the henhouse and looking down I saw the shark Tie had come In by diving through the large hole through which our chickens had gone Into the yard when they awoke In the morning You may Imagine my consternation I was alone In a henhouse hen-house with a chickeneating shark and I had no adequate assurance that he 1 was not also a man nler The shark did not wait for an Introduction balancing bal-ancing himself I upon hls tall he grabbed a chicken from the roost and swallowed It whole He repeated the feast until he had eaten six and then diving through the hole went leaping over the fences again evidently very much pleased lie had failed to see me otherwise he night have bittenjne In the leg Well to make a IdjVg1 1 story short continued Mr lllngle we waited for him next morning and slopped the hole after he had entered We then killed him with a rifle Taking the visitor to the roar gallery Mr illogic showed the jawbone and teeth of the shark In the teeth were a number of chicken feathers We managed to kill him before he had time to pick his teeth remarked Mr lllngle modestly New Orleans TimesDemocrat |