Show why the shark la always As it is a source of wonder how the flea manages to exist in the sand where his chances of obtaining a meal may not occur once in a lifetime so natural ests are puzzled as to how the shark maintains himself the ocean is wide ind the number of men who fall over board small indeed in comparison to its area the vast proportion of sharks then must go through their lives without a remote chance of obtaining a meal at the expense of the human land there is no ground for the supposition that the shark can exist upon air he ia not like the whale provided with an apparatus that enables him toft sweep up the tiny inhabitants of the seas he is too slow in swimming and infinitely too slow in turning to catch any fish that did not deliberately swim into his mouth and unless we suppose that as ibris said of the snake he exercises a magnetic influence over fish aad causes them to rush headlong to destruction between his jaws it is impossible to imagine how he obtains a sufficient supply of food for his sustenance indeed it would appear that it is only when he gets the good luck to light upon a dead or badly injured fish that the shark has ever the opportunity of making a really square meal his prolonged fasts certainly furnish an ample explanation and excuse for his alleged savagery of disposition london standard |