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Show It Got Away. It was a big fish, but it got away. Perhaps it would be better to say that the fishermen got away. The fish was a shark, Ihirty feet long, and It almost al-most pulled the fishing schooner, Albert Al-bert Williard, on a dangerous shoal. The boat was near George's Bank, off the New England shore, when the shark came alongside. Capt. Frank Dougherty ordered his men to throw harpoons Into the shark's back, and they did so. They threw five harpoons har-poons and an icepick, and all held fast. The shark started off at a great rate, dragging the heavy schooner at the ends of the harpoon lines as if it were a toy boat. After a two-hours' fight with the "sea lawyer" the schooner was in danger of being drawn on a shoal, and so the lines were cut and the shark allowed to go. He took the harpoons and the Icepick with him, and the crew of the Alhert Williard had to chop Ice with n hatchet. |
