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Show Capt. Coffin and the Whale. The follow InK utory In (old of Capt. Coffin of Nantucket, who was cruising cruis-ing for Kpcrin whnles In the Pacific ocean: A hclionl war Blghtcd nnil tlio lioatB were lowered, nnd Hoon tlio captain's cap-tain's liont was' "fust." Usually when p whnlo Is Btrurk (harpooned) ho pounds or goes down. Then It Is tlmo tn look nut and hoe where he Is coming com-ing up. This particular whnle enmo up under un-der tlio I10.1t, with Jaws wldo open, crushing 'ho boat anil throwing out tlio crew. Tim eaptalu found lilm&clf In tlio whale's Jaw, runt, prolinhly recalling re-calling Jonoh, he wriggled out of his unpleasant surroundings as quickly as possible., On relating his experience to somo friends after Ills return home, he was asked: "Cnpt. CtiMln, what did you think when joii were In the whalo's Jaw?' "What did 1 think? I thought ho'd ninko a hundred hnrrcls," was tlio reply. |
