Show LIKE OCEAN WOLVES TAILING THEM KILL KIND when one gets injured other mem bers of els species speedily tear to pieces and devour him every in awhile will rise up to tell us that there are no man bating sharks it would not do to tell an old sailor that he knows better som tars ago says a writer in forest and stream I 1 met a young man who knows that there ar such fish he had left his left foot and part of his 1 g v ath one 0 them while he was bathing off key west and had not the ship s boat got to him the moment it did the shark would have eaten th rest of him wt en sailing in a steam haler in 1874 one of our amusements v as fishing for aarl s I 1 anade a hoo t after a draw ing and with it we caught a number of them one of our boat steer ers gave me h opinion of how the shark became a min ater and I 1 hae often since thought he had it right since then I 1 have seen the same op nion advanced to aceti nt tor the man hunting tiger all tigers are not man h aters any more than are all harks man ea la his idea was that it a man sharl did at lack a anan then any other sharl s that might also be in the neighborhood d aleo attack him and alter thee the e had done they too became man eat ers the shark Is like ft wolf in one respect if he gets hurt any of his companions that may be present will tear him to pieces without lose of alm I 1 have seen them do it V w ri arder ball and w ere standing west under a light wind hardly doing more than steerage wa v ath the sea as smooth as a mill pond when one just after da light a shark wae seen following ats about ards astern of the ship he had probably boon doing this all night only his dor sal aln showed aboe the water but be seemed to be a large one our hook was thrown to him but the only notice he took of it was to drop a little aurther he did cot wart tap acol at noon he was belll in his place astern an iriving tl p hook out tor him we went to dinner he might get bold enough to take the hook when we were not in sight I 1 thought w next came on deck he was belll as far aeterna as before and now I 1 made up my mind to shoot him we had rifles on board but I 1 could not one of them without tb captain e permission and just ae I 1 bad started to go and acet his permission he came on deck ard the shark bent me for his gilea aad diflo I 1 brought up an old sharp rifle and while the captain stood at my elbow with th ilaa to coach me I 1 fir d three shots using his aln the only part of him I 1 could see 0 o aim by I 1 wanted to hit hlib amidships and as low down as I 1 could and cot have the water deflect my bail the first shot was too high the next one not high enough but the third shot got him and the ball hardly hit him when two other sharl s that none ot us had seen seized him one on each elde of and dragged him down for the next few minutes something deemed to be doing back there the big shark pot to be top of the water twice throwing himself nearly out of it the first time and giving us a chance to see how large he was but each time the other pulled hid below again the were still fiting when we had dropped them too far astern to be able to see how the fight terminated thase sharks will follow a after day to pickup pick up what may be thrown overboard the sailor thinks that it I 1 he they want to pick up some of them would not refuse him if he did drop over V ben we found them follow ing us we would bring up a b ot kitchen refuse and throw jt to them then pre gent them the hook and some of them yener ally made the mistake of tal ing it when he did we only got him the rest of them always left |