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Show TODAY IN HISTORY SLIGHTLY JAZZED i i Seventy-two years ago today. Aug. j 7, 1848. Captain McQuhoe of the Hrlt-j Hrlt-j Ish warship Daedalus rubbed his eyes and looked again He called to his ! navigating officer "Look, Cecil, do j you see It too?" "Yes." said Cecil. I and the captain breathed a re! e j sigh. "That's good; I thought I had 'cm again.' He had spotted a sea serpent At least he reported It to the admiralty. admir-alty. This happened near S; Helena and it was In lh amc waters th t another British captain 6aid ho saw it again, nine years later. All hands agreed that the serpent was either, 200 or 500 feet long. In 1SU another attack of seeing; sea serpents came upon sailors, th. coasts of tho United Stales. Canada' and Norway brliiK uffllcted chiefly A generation later, as we remember, there was another epidemic and no summer resort was up to date without Its monster of the debp. Todav, how.1 ever, all of the sea serpents have moved to the Cuban coast. oo- |