Show lo 10 the noble horse the year 1947 ended with a new tea sea serpent story which you undoubtedly read about I 1 mention it because I 1 myself saw a strange and terrifying beast as I 1 walked to work one late december morning and I 1 believe the two tales worthy of repetition As to the sea serpent the associated c a ted press carried a signed story by the master of the steamship santa clara J fordan in which he described the monster sighted in the atlantic miles due east of ca cape pe lookout he named the first and third mates and the officer as witnesses according to their testimony the monsters snake snakelike like head was about two and one half feet long there was about 35 feet of cylindrical body some three feet in diameter visible the water about the beast was attained d red and the animal was thrashing around in apparent a agony gon Y causing the skipper to believe that the ship had cut it in two the beasts skin was brown slick and smooth there were no ances fans or hair on the head neck or visible parts of the body the skippers story mine Is equally terrifying I 1 a actually saw in the early morning ng moving down new hampshire camp share avenue a huge creature chose body like the skippers sea serpent was without fins or protuberances but unlike it was covered with hair the head bead was more than two feet long the barrel shaped body was supported on four longlegs which made the creature higher higher when it threw up its head much higher than a man its feet were not large compared to the great powerful body and they terminated in a great claw or nail like substance which would give the creature terrible weapons of offense or defense the teeth were large and blunt and the mouth though not large plainly could inflict damaging wounds human beings looked puny beside this creature which appeared as out of place an on a washington city street as a hip hippopotamus popo tamus or an elephant strangely enough it did not cause eny any great commotion except among the younger people who stared in wonder obviously never having seen anything Li ll keit except in picture books it did pose considerable problems for motorized traffic horns honked drivers jittered tittered jitt ered back seat orders thundered finally the monster turned off the street and went up an alley that was a great relief to me I 1 knew what i it was I 1 had even ridden one when I 1 was in the artillery and later but it was a shock to see a rial real live in a city street |