Show ST A story of the sea comes aiom st abalo the narrator being in ancient minner named e whose in a baat on the ocean ought to be a warrant for alie truth of 1 is tale bauche had signed with alie of a vessel called tl e mathilde Mathi lue an fn which lie sailed to Minim que hile in the harbor of at 1 gerrein a boat the cabin boy one day he as driven oceans ird by a and vas knocking about for a week on tl e waves before he avis rescued bv i norwegian bark after tl e first night at sea bauche says fiat tie cabin boy beame partly delirious bater was filling the boit at every instant and in order to pre vent the dying lid from being drowned in it tl e old sailor male tails of the legs of ills loons ind mas thus en idled to keep the bottom of the little crift tolerably dry lie had ilao to de 1 ot his shirt which he utilized as 1 hag of distress on tl e tl ird day the cibin boy died and hard ly wis alie bre etli 0 it of his body before seven or eight ferocious blick sh irks began to circle round the bo it which they sometimes almost touched kither tl in deliver up tie body to the of the deep 1 duel e kept it until it became offensive being ier iid of illness lie it length chiew it after hiving sald over it ind the prey ans seized by tie shirks which ind did not show up again for twenty fo ir hours or so now felt so utterly miserable tint lie wis tl inking of throwing him self overboard wl en ie is diss laded from 1 is intention by tl 0 acce of the sharks vanch after being anin tor some time be gin to gambol befaro haia as it in an of a good teed oil his body edid idid not want to be eiten alive remarked rem irked bluche in ills birr etive of ins perilous id ventures so I 1 remained tema ined M liere I 1 w as ind dwite 1 on tl e sei anth day alie sailor lost con ness fell do n in the bo it and is rescued n in insensible condition by I 1 dreison of tl e in 1 is mouth the norwegian sailors found what they hist thought s in old quid of tobacco but v inch proved to be pirt of the horn handle 0 ins knife which bauche as to stave off en he became un conscious J 1 0 rescued sailor after t iving been aiken to new Oi leins ob tuned t passage home to bt only the day he ent down to the port to meet his old ilni mates of tl e Ala thilde who had been wrecked kofl the cointot er tl ey hid made obige since bauche at ahe chew of the mathilde 1 id been res cued oft tl e banks of I 1 by in I 1 anglish vessel ahey biad long of course houct e and tl e cabin bai as lost in mid ocean and great was tl air surprise when t ey beheld the former in tl e klesli and as title and 1 airty as if he biad never been without food on the deep for full seven d s in an open boat and in perilous contin gency to the teeth of the tigers of the ocean |