A WHALE TURNS BACK.
A whale has been run down by a liner in the Atlantic, if whales hold public meetings it' may be imagined, says a humouious writer, that 'considerable indignation was expressed by them at the eaietessuess of whale life exhibited by the road-hogs of the ocean. A school of whafes was harmlessly at play when the Cunard steamer Berengaria came in sight. Giving due notice of their intentions by spouting, the whales, took their undeniable right of way across the Berengaria's bows. Unfortunately the smallest of the school, a youngster weighing only 40 tons, turned back. It turned too late. The ship struck it with a jar that nearly threw the lookout man overboard, but, after all, the whale weighed only 40 tons and the liner nearer 52,000. So no one will ever know now why. the whale turned back.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19418, 28 August 1926, Page 2 (Supplement)
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