Show M f r l TL i V 1 N v TVP I OJt HIS strictly commercial I 74 business of shnrk hunting o T 0 Is done In small loops it whoo hradquarters nre In the more northerly Norwegian Norwe-gian ports file crews are for the 4 most part made up of pureblooded 1 descendants of the VlklngH who are fctill to be found In any number among the codUshers of Ilnmimrfest and Tromso And n magnificent race of men they are Accustomed from boyhood boy-hood to n life of hardship they have a WilY of treating Father Neptune with n slightly contemptuous toleration i t like an old friend of somewhat uncertain uncer-tain temper whose rapid changes from smiling benevolence to wild blustering anger are on the whole I rather nmuslng than otherwise They care nothing for danger and little for suffering In themselves or tj in others Why then should they stop to think that perhaps a maimed but still living 1 shark can feel The fishing Is done off the const of Iceland In about eighty fathoms of water Three or four gallowslike structures are rigged up around tho sides of the sloop and from each of s these hangs a pulleyblock over which runs a strong rope and to the end of h this time baited hook It fastened A i plentiful supply of groundbait Is thrown out to attract the quarry and ouch is the eagerness with which the sharks take tho bait that sometimes each one of these gadlow s like fishing rods will have Its fish hooked and fighting 1 fight-ing for life nil nt the same time There is no playing the fish It Is not necessary or possible and the powerful pow-erful tackle is hardly likely to break no matter how fiercely tho hooked t shark may struggle But the shark is not for his size n game fish nnd except ex-cept when he is actually being hoisted up out of the water there is no very serious strain on the tackle If lie docs now and then get away it is not because be-cause be ever manages to break the line but because a lightly fixed hook d easily tears through the soft cartilaginous cartilagi-nous skeleton of his head and so sets him free As soon as a ph ark has taken one of the baits the hauling tackle attached to his pnrtlculnr gnltows Is manned nnd without any superltous fuss or ceremony he Is hauled up to the sloop 1 1 and hoisted just clear of the water rli lIeIIItlot JltolllthtIb lll nit r i but with a few bold slashes his liver J II is cut out as he bangs and Is thrown into n tub to be further dealt with l Inter Then bis eyes are put out nab he Is cut adrift to go and complete ij 1 + 1 the tardy process of dying where and W how be pleases 1t All this sounds very horrible but Ili J IfJ there Is one curious fact which goes far Q to make us believe that this death cannot M 1 can-not after all be such a cruel one ns nt j first appears It is this the fishermen t1 a it say that unless they put out the j sharks eyes he will afterward cause J II + J them n lot of trouble by coming and taking the bait n second time 1 It sounds Incredible but the statement state-ment Is thoroughly well authenticated by eyewitjiesses who have seen a Ii 1 livcrless shark do Just this very thing I I C Scientists doubtless nre right in saying jl say-ing that the shark which by anatomical of anatomi-cal classification is one of the lowest I of fishes does not feel pain in tho way I more highly organized Animals feel It I l 1 > We will cling to that i belief for it is I it consoling us if not to the shark 1 who is thus sacrificed that his liver may supply us with what I tJ It Is n secret not to be spoken aloud I 4 M Norway is one of the great centres of j the cod trade and from cod is made I codliver oil and sharkliver oil tastes J and looks exactly like ItPearsons f Magazine 4 |