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Show SHARK AS CHICKEN THIEF Jumped Fences nnd Entered Hen- house Through Hole ln Itenr Story of Equinoctial Season. It is not often that a shirk brenks Into n man's henroost and steals his chickens Such a ease however is on record nt Pointe-a-li-IInehc. i:mmet lllnglc told the storj as he showed a Msltor around his fathers buk J aid, which wis full of llvelj and Intelllg.nt joung ch.ckens Mr. Hlngle has onlv had a few j cars' experlente ns a law jer. Ills veracity Is therefore unquestioned unques-tioned Ho lull educed the matter bj temnrklng: " e lost a grent number of our chickens chick-ens hist jeur b a shark" "While or colored;" asked the visitor ' incredulouslj. "A shark, mnn-n shark from the gulf eight feet long." "Did he wiiIk nil the distance or come In a fish cm? ' 'The niTnlr is not as impossible ns jou are Inclined to believe remarked ill Hindu In an aggrieved tone ou notice the levee In front of the house vvtll inch jear during the equinoctial season a stiong southeast wind blows the wnteis of the gulf Into Polutc-a-la-Hnehe nnd floods the town The water Is three or four fttt deep We have to go In skiffs from the front of the house to the levte. List jear as usual when the Hoods cninmt nteil we dmvo all our thickens into Ih, big lunhouse Natumllj, when tho Hood hu uue tlet p thev could not come down to eat ln order to feed them we rigged up A lope 1 t.rnlltl to each roost and slowlj pulled u Imsket of com from one tnrt to the other in this waj tho chickens had to eat standing up'' "I did not know that chickens ever nte sitting down or In a m lining position posi-tion ' Inltrjtcted the visitor 'However 'How-ever thnt maj have been their custom during the dnvs of the llmnnns " It was onlj n method of expression " continued Mr. Hlngle "I minnl thnt the chltktns stood on the most nnd nte the corn ns It pissed before them 111 the basket Well, we hnd he, n feeding feed-ing them In this waj for a ftw dnjn when we limited thnt thej hail begun to diminish In numhtr We then began to count each morning and found that four or live disappeared each night We Ilmllj dtcldcd to wntch I rlggtd mj-Mdr mj-Mdr up a platform In the chlckenbouso and went out to spend the night Prom 10 o'tloek until 4 nothing happened nnd I wns becoming pretty well tired think-Ing think-Ing piohnbly thnt the negro who hnd been robbing our henroost hnd seen me and would not rnnke another attempt while I wis there As the grnj light begin to dawn, howevtr, 1 henrd a series of splashes, nnd, looking toward the rear I siw a largo shark Jumping the fences ns If thej hnd been hurdles. Natumllj I wns verj much surprised. A hen the shirk had Jumped over our fence he disappeared under the wnter I wns looking nil around for him when I heard n noise In tho henhouse, nnd looking down I saw the shark He hnd come In bj diving through the large hole through which our chickens hnd gone Into the jnrd when thej nwoke In the morning. You may Imagine my consternation. I wns nlone In a henhouse hen-house with n chicken entlng shnrk, nnd I hnd nn ndequate nssurunco thnt he wns n,nt nl'o n imn fiter. The shnrk did not wnlt for an Introduction, bnl-anclng bnl-anclng himself upon his tall he grabbed n chicken from the roost and swallowed It whole He repeated the fonst until lie hid eaten six; and then, diving through the hole, went leaping over the fenrts again, evtilentlj' very much pleased. He had failedXo see me. otherwise lie might have bitten me In the leg. "Well, to make rt long story short," continued Mr Hmle, "we wnlted for him next morning and stopped the hole after ho had entered. We then killed him with n rifle" Taking the visitor to the renr gallery. Mr. Hliu'le showed the Jiwbone and teeth of the shark. In the teeth were n number of chicken feathers "We managed to kill him before he hnd time to pick his teeth," remarked Mr. Hlngle modestly, New Orleans Times-Democrat. |