MODERN MISS JONAH.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 923, 26 November 1910, Page 3

MODERN MISS JONAH.

Bega, Nov. 15. One of the employees at the Bega whaleries is recovering from a mixed attack of fright, hysterics, and fainting. He was engaged cutting up a whale a day or two ago, and when he had cleaved away the flesh from one side of the stomach he saw what appeared to be the lully-dressed body of a young lady lying inside. At first he thought she was dead, and he was considering the advisability of going off to report to the police when the young lady rubbed her eyes and sat up. The whaler fell off the whale.

But the young lady was not even a ghost. It appears that she suffers very much from rheumatism. Somebody had told her that to get inside and stay inside the body of a whale for a while would cure her—that, in fact, Jonah was cured of chalky joints and rheumatic gout in the same way. So she climbed iu and lay herself down to sleep. Her sleep was peaceful. The reverberation of men’s feet ou the outside of the carcase did not wake her, and it was not until daylight was let into her blubbery bedroom that she awoke.

She has not yet lost her rheumatism, but she attributes this to the tact that she did not get in when the mammal was alive.

The incident caused a good deal of amusement here to the residents and to the visitors who have been down to see the last two whales that were caught.