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Fate Of A Greedy Shark

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
August
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Special agents of the United Staten treasury travel in many statês and sec many strange things. They heai strange stories, too. In the big custora hotise building every day from 9 o'clock until 4 there sits a man who is a very treasure mine of anecdotes. He is so modest, though, that he won't allow hia name to be used in connection with tbis particular story_. "JL was off Cedar Keys," said he. "I had heen shark fishing, and was talking of sharks to an old-tirae sponge fisher, when he told me that he had found, some twenty miles off the keys, the largest shark it had ever been his fortune to see, floating belly upward, etarved to death. 'Why, the shark was as thín as a poker," sald the sponge fisher, 'and I determined to find out what aüed hlm. I pulled him aboard and cut him open. There, in his stomach, open end toward the head. was half of a barrel whlcb. had contained mess pork. The half barrel had cvidently been throwa overboarel from scme vessel and the shark had ÊObbltd it up as it hit the water, without looking to see what it was. It was too bad that he swallowed it butt end first, for whatever he ate after that went into the barrel and did the shark

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Ann Arbor Register