Paddling under Palmettos — page 135: what you’re looking at

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128 Paddling Under Palmettos. him fish, however, had seen that he only extracted a single tooth from each victim. These were kept as trophies, marked with ink as to the time of capture, and if there was anything peculiar about the affair the particulars were jotted down in a big logbook. No doubt that volume would have been very in- _ teresting reading. | When pressed by the others for a story, this gen- tleman, the Shark Hunter, as he was often called in sport, looked calmly around. “T am tempted to tell you, gentlemen, the reason of my strange hatred for the pirate of the ocean—the shark,” he said, with a gleam of humor in his eye. One and all were delighted. So various had ru- mors become that a great deal of curiosity had been | excited, and even ridiculous stories set afloat con- cerning his queer occupation, some asserting their belief that a man lived upon shark’s flesh. He was undoubtedly about to take advantage of this opportunity of setting himself right before the world. When those present had hastened to assure him that such a story would be very agreeable to them, Gomicbooks. co