A Shark Story.
Perhaps the be3t atory of the kind, and po-sil>ly worthy of as much cr« deuce, is told of a shark inside of which a strange noise was heard after its capture. On opening it a man was discovered grinding an axe on a *tone which bis s >v was turning, lhey "ere preparing to hew a way out of their living tomb. The maa was a carpenter of a whaler who had been sown up with the grinrffi)ne At his feet, and committed to the deep in a trance. The son. mad with grief, jumpad after his father, and both were followed by the shark. The carpenter came to life again, and was helped out of his rough ■winding sheet by his son. History gaye h not how the axe enme to be there, or what became of our heroes aft.fr their deliverance from this '• Black Hole " That shark was without d^ubt a tough old ainner. but 'his yarn would choke him, if he had atUmpUd to •wallow it.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 11 November 1890, Page 2
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172A Shark Story. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 11 November 1890, Page 2
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