Show lo 10 the noble horse the year 1947 ended with a new sea serpent story which you un read about I 1 mention it because I 1 myself saw a strange and terrifying beast as I 1 walked to work one late december morning and I 1 believe the two tales worthy of repe As to the sea serpent the asso dated press carried a signed story by the master of the steamship santa clara J fordan in which he described the monster sighted in the atlantic miles due east of cape lookout he named the first and third mates and the navigation as witnesses according to their testimony the monster monsters s snakelike snake like head was about two and one half feet long there was about 35 feet of cylindrical body some three feet in diameter visible the water about the beast was stained red and the animal was thrashing around in apparent agony causing the skipper to believe that the ship had cut it in two the beast beasts s skin was brown slick and there were no pro tuber ances fins or hair on the head neck or visible parts of the body that s the skipper s story mine is equally terrifying I 1 actually saw in the early morn ing moving down new ham hampshire P avenue a huge creature whose body like the skipper skippers s sea serpent was without fins or protuberances but unlike it was covered with hair the head bead was more than two feet ion long 9 the barrel shaped body was sup ported on four long legs which made the creature higher when it threw up its head much higher than a man its feet were not large compared to the great powerful body and they terminated in a great claw or nail like substance which would give the creature terrible weapons 0 offense or defense the teeth we were large and blunt and the in mouth though not large plainly could in flicht damaging wounds human beings looked puny beside this creature which appeared as out of place on a washington city street as a hippopotamus or an elephant strangely enough it did not cause any great commotion except among the younger people who stared in wonder obviously never having seen anything like it except in pic ture books it did pose considerable problems for motorized traffic horns honked drivers jittered backseat back seat orders thundered finally the monster turned off the street and went up an alley that was a great relief to fo me I 1 knew what it was I 1 had even ridden one when 1 I was in the artillery and later but it was a shock to ae a real live in a city street |