BARRY OUTDONE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1139, 29 February 1884, Page 3

BARRY OUTDONE.

Cant.ain William Jacks'in B'rry had hot. ter look f o his’laurels. The Loudon Daily Telegraph tells the following amusing story,: “N't vety often ones a horgotthe eh -nee i.f sitting on the M'whole of u live wuale ; nor, probably,having done so once, would be likely to repeat the experiment at least, not if be bad read or been told of what happened the other day to a Shetland lad who bad inadvertently sea'e 1 himself upon the nostrils of a strande I Behemoth. This veracious narrative states that the whale had drifted in shore, having gone aground upon an ice tine, and so been washed bodily out of deep water to one of the islands. An old fisherman, with his boy, had arranged to fasten a rope or chain round the creature’s tail, and it was at this moni“iit of triuidph that the youugter is said to have seated himself upon the fore bead of the leviathan. Becoming aware of B'nno obstruction to its hrea hing, it gave a treat snort, and sneezed th boy 50yds nut to sea. The I my, it is added, was not hurt, hat much surprised, as well he might he. To sit down unconcernedly on the orifice of an active volcano, and he suddenly blown up into the air, is calculated to astonish even the nest phlegmatic temperament, Asiatic apathy icould hardly stand unmoved at such an expected and forcible test, much less a frivolous urchin, who, verv proud, uo| doubt, of his lofty perch, found himself all of a sudden puffed up beyond all of his expectations, and his small graceless body flying through space like a marble from a blow pipe. And there is not much on a whale’s head to catch hold of. It is smooth, polished, and sloping, so that when the imoetns came from beneath up he had to go, like a clay pigeon off the trap. There was no help for it, and go ho did, 50ft up in the air and 50yds out to sea. It was a lesson tn him not to go about sitting on whales’ blnwho’es—at any rate until they are eeourelv plugged up—and we may he tolerably certain that even if that Shetland boy lives to become the oldest inhabitant of the island he will never again ho found taking a seat on the escape-pipe of even the smallest cetacean.”