THE YARNS OF CAPTAIN FIBB.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIII, Issue 7, 18 August 1909, Page 52

THE YARNS OF CAPTAIN FIBB.

1. “Once when we wuz cruisin’ in the Indian Ocean I slips on a marline spike and fell overboard, and right under me, with his jaws wide open, wuz a big shark waitin’ fer meter drop

4. The next minit the swordfish gits under the shark and rips him from stem to stern, and the fierce man-eater gives up thq ghost! ■ ■

2. Well, me lads, I drops inter his maw, all right, and no mistake; and he swallers me with one gulp, and it wuz good-by fer me fer fair!—

5. •—•—He floated ter the surface on his back, and whew! didn’t it feel good ter crawl out and git a breath o’ fresh air ag’in. And there wuz the ship in the offin’, so I yells fer help!——*

3. Jist then a big swordfish comes along and then there wuz a ter’ble commotion, and I knows it wuz fer a fight ter a finish between ’em! -

U. And then they puts off « boat and saves me! Hang me from the yardarm if that wazn't the closest call I ever had—jist like bein’ raised from the dead!" -■ - *