Show DA DAYS V or OF the days of the old time whaling fleets flee Is when more than two hundred tull full rigged ships sailed out of 0 now bedford harbor on three an and four year voyages to tho the most distant M and dangerous seas were over moro more than half a century ago tho the right of greenland whale chalo of tho the arctic waters with his mouth full of whalebone and his cousin tho the sperm whale of tropical waters bm bearing ring in its head the precious prec spermaceti were practically exterminated by those all daring iron iran nerved keen eyed kankeo skippers their splendid ships tho the annie B D tho the mary jario jado tho the blue eyed dyed susan gr great cat lovers of their wives and sweethearts were this race of gentlemen adventurers rotted at tho the wharves or were degraded to service as coastwise and with them vanished a world of romance and adventure no men in no time more enily than they went down to the sea in ships but when the pennant of oc the last old time whaling ship was hauled down borover to rover there still proudly swam the oceans the vast or racer whale greatest of all his mighty kin to the sailing fleet of the old days the was an almost impossible prize bv of its tremendous speed it wab practically unmolested and multiplied exceedingly in both north at bantle and pacific waters it was the abundance ot of this loyl athan measuring ninety feet in length and weighing almost aa many tons bulking balking larger than a whole herd hard of elephants which was the inspiration of abo modern whaling industry |