Show 7 ho ak FIGHT WITH A SHARK Sf Sv ai it or yot not as an your roar falta za Is in JS sharks and men ciyou flou landlubbers land lubbers of today to day ara area a ayn ica ilot of people and commodore tyrrell in his righteous indignation beff anto berate the scribe dispute the yarn which isi is i left to the render reader to digest and absorb as ae sees fit 1 daway away back in the month of novem bet anthe the year 1864 before the war 71 was over I 1 was serving on th the 6 good sh itie ir ta comet we had been moving into the Campe Cam peachy why banks where red su snappers appers abounded by the million the schools of these fishes wre often miles in length and with hoota and leneive line we stood at the boats boal si aldi all day catching them by the hundred I 1 using only large chunks of pork forwalt for balt no sooner would the bait strike the water than the big fish would swallow it conf only the next moy be landed on the deck the beads were cut off air and the fish packed Warr fo barrels barrels parr els we filled on an average of thirty barrels w a day the were then thrown bak back into the water and this naturally drew sharks one tay day thi th boagan bo atan billy wilson was told to jassis iii alce a big hook with clr wl h to capture i a shark it was fasten e I 1 to the lead allne and baited with a six p of of 41 pork far out in the viator it if was thrown for the a shark bark to swallow and sure 6 enough in in a moment the line bl ba gaa running anning out at a speed that required the application of water to eave it from scorching when it came aci toa 4 sudden stop wilson and gill the i began to io tire out th the e fisa by taking in the line at last when jt it was vies within ten feet of the vessel a volley of rifle bullets was poured into it in an instant the shark turned again sia and made a dart jerking the line from wa th e mens mend hands and throwing them overboard away and away it went iad the work of tiring it out was again when mien a second time the large white wk body was exposed to view a number ot of volleys were fired into it even capt jewett taking a hand froni from the hurricane deck tl AU ali hands up shark the command rang out and one hundred men with willing hands seized thaline the line 6 the next instant landing the shark on oil the deckwith a loud louder er no noise 1 se than if a five pound ou gun giu had been dismounted well we cut that shark pin open andini and in the stomach wei we found dundan an old olA boota boot a tin can and about a bushel of fish heads when the jaws were propped open and the mouth was dis ten ed it wash waa big enough to allow a s stooping to th measured everix mx I 1 teen feet in lengths length and we cut I 1 it ii up and weighed it in sections it cou counted anted up over two thousand pounds those were the days I 1 tell you yon cincinnati tribune |