Judge — May 23, 1885 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. — 1 | A SHARK COMMITS SUICIDE. | | One of the Adventures of Jack Servenmalet While in the West Indies. | é gun-earriage on the main | with a self-cockin’ revolver. It would a made you snort to see ’em | West ‘Twenty-Sixth street | scoot. Bimeby I missed a big one. It took me all aback till 1 mplacent way in spite of | tried it agin, and then I see that he reefed his fin jest as he saw me pout his adventure at | workin’ my finger on the trigger. i} | Jack Servenmalet was sitting on deck of the big man o° war at the foot smoking his pie, the other night, in ac | an oceasional jibe from his shipm || the tink, when the carpenter's mute began to tell astury. ‘Then |" Mighty knowin critters that,’ says I to myself. ¢ Wonder Jack smoked rather more vigorously, but said nothing. what he'll do next.’ Tdidn’t have to wait long to lurn, — He see “Remember the * Ammygansett ” k nodded. my feet w said the carpenter's mate. down to the water, and jest as I gota fresh eylen- he made a rush for’em. Tl admit I was ski 3 may you have heard what a narrer eacape sho hol in the | will. 1 jest laid the pistol on the rock and jumped for the b China Sea when T was crrpenter’s mate onto her. | Must have been | quicker ’n you could say scat with yer mouth puckered, when you was with the * South Pacifi We was he “Then t x mes close inshore and eyes me | } 8 acki. When it comes to blow a livin’ gale from e In course | then goes ont to the rock and raises hisself outen the water and ey we didn’t mind that. when we'd got her st the engine | the pistol and then comes back and slook at me mighty wicked, as down, but the gale kept a inc rreasin’ until | if he was thinkin’ ‘I’m on to you, Jack; no more nonsense in these in the first watch, maybe about four bells the old man | waters’? All this time the tide was runnin’ in and bimeby the on deck and a look around, ‘Then he orders the officer | pistol was swamped. Mr. Shark he kept sojerin and sojerin around | ar the deck to up helm and rnn_for it, which it was the proper | a eyin’ me and the pistol till the water was as much as two feet thing to do, only jest as we got off into the trough of the sea a butt | deep over the rock.” started right on the bluff of the bow where there never ought to be | “Must a riz about three feet no batts. ‘The water it poured in through a hole as big as your leg, | said the carpenter's mate reflective an’ all hands was called to pump ship. “In course it did. As Iw *Twarn’t no use, though, cause the the shark he jest floated hi *Ammygansett’ had been fitted out by rock, und there he lay rollin’ first contract, and the pamps mostly had one eye down at the pistol and then no suckers into ’em. What to do ’ce ~ the other, and a workin’ it around with to properly cuss the contrac his tongue, ‘Then he scoots out to sea, didn't know, when a Incky and after an hour or more brings bac ght comes tome. [was a fav'rit two other big or and they all n= with the old man, and when [ goes to ines the pistol very close. All this time the ¢; n he says, the tide the tide runnin’ out agin » Bill, what is it?’ says he. und when the big shark see it he sta- “+L was thinkin’ sir;? says [, ‘if tions hisself right over the rock and i grounds hisself there. Pretty soon the whole head of him showed up out of the water with more’n a fathom of smile on his countenance, as much us to a “*T've got you this time, Jack; why don’t you get yer pop?? which I was gettin? anxious about myself, lest the gunner should m and eyes. and in the West Indies at that,” . maybe the ew which its a workin’ there astern might suck the | water outen the ship, instead of takin’ it from alongside, to shove her ahead | with,’ T says. “Cup. Suifrige was allera quick at pin’ on to new idees, an’ he | telis me to heave ahead. ‘The water on | it. the slop d was up to my belt, but I “But his rejoicin wasn’t skeered at that, and in jest ten - z time minutes [had a hole through, “Believe it or not, the suction jerked | thoso as thinks they is, rejoices untimely over other people's an outen my hands, and. it took me and my mate five | misfortunes. When he tried to turn round and say some- rof the hole. It wonld have done you good | thing to his mates, he found hisself fast on that ’ere rock. If you par the wi I didn’t have todo no more, That one could a seen the look that came over his countenance ther His two-inch: hole kept her clear for ten days, while we was rnn- | eyes rolled jest wild, and his jaws worked theirselves into a latl T before the wind, Then we made Nagasacki dry dock for | but it warn’t no us uy he w nd no mistake, and then h - two mates deserted him. Ile see “em a scootin for deep water, arpenter's mate stopped to cuff a second-class apprentice | just give up intirely to despair. His face twitched pamful ling, and Jack took his pipe from his month and blew | lower jaw droope.! till his chin rested on the butt of that pi ning column of smoke ainst a beam over his head. | a pitiful way. He let it Jay thar a minute, rollin’ his eyes about as | if he'd got a idee. Then he turned hisself a bit, and before I r heered of that ‘ere afore: maybe its cause T was cap- | knowed what he was up to he had that ’ere pop between his lips | tain of the foretop on the * Amaranth,’ cruisin’ in the West Indies | with the muzzle in and his tongue on the trigger. As I said, when the * Ammygansett ” was on the China static I warn’t no | was a self-cocking revolver. That ’ere shark died with his decks captain’s pet, but bein’ a trusty officer I got shore leave three times | cleared for action, and colors flyin’. I tell ye, sharks is a mighty a week when we was in port. I was payin’ considerable attention knowin’ fish.” to natteral history, with sharks asa specialty. Sharks is about the ‘The second class apprentice had listened with open-eyed wonder | knowinest fish that ever swum, ‘They can’t exactly talk, but they | to the story of the shark’s suicide, and wher speaking has a expressive way of rollin’ their eves and a wrinklin’ their) drew along breath, ‘The carpenter’s mate cleared his throat and countenances, what shows that they has more sense in one minute | said, d than some folks ever gets in a whole cruise to China and back wis really not Wiser folks note sharks, r ain. ‘The second-class apprentice giggled at that, and was promptly 's || | cuffed for his impertinence by the carpenter's mate, while Jack con- “Must have I ful lonesome for ye, Ja | | “Naw ’twarn’t, I forgot to tell ye the carpenter's mate as | “One day I sets myself on a big rock, at low tide, about four | a sort of mmyter liar was aloug, an’ he hel muse me with fathoms from the beach. It was a foot out of water, and I was) yarns about savin’ ships from sinkin’ by borin alongside of the | | experimentin’ with the sharks by shootin holes throu their fing | starn post. | b___ = — — | comicbooks.com