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“um-u». was was unendurableâ€"that was ianominiousâ€"that was even absurd. His virility kicked at it. There is something essentially insulting and degrading to one's manhocd in having to tell a girl ou’ve pre- tended to love herâ€"that you on y care {or nerina sisterly fashion. It is practically to unsox one's seli.- A pretty girl appeals quite otherwise to the man that is in us. Hu h felt it hizlcrly and deeplyâ€"Jorhinm sel , not for Elsie. lie pitied his own and plight most sincerely. llut then, there was poor Elsie to think of too. No use in the world in blinking that. Elsie loved him very, very dearly. True, they had never been engaged to one anotherâ€"so great is the} love of consistency in man, that eVen alone' in his own mind Hugh continued to hug that] translucent fiction; but she had been Inn-n THE THREAD OF LIFE; It was a great sacrifice, and he felt it as such. He was positively throwing him- self away upon \Vinifrcd. If he had fol- lowed his own crude inclinations alone, dike a romantic schoolboy, he would have waited for ever and ever for his cousin Elsie. Elsie was indeed the one true love of his youth. Hehad always loved her, and he would always love her. ’Twae foolish, perhaps, to indulge overmuch in these per- sonal preferences, but after all it was very 3 human ; and Hugh acknowledged regretfully in hiaown heart that he was not entirely raised in that respect above the average level of human weakness. Still,a man, however hnmunesque, must not be governed by impulse alone. He must judge calmly, deliberately, imperaonally, dieintereatedly of his own future, and must act for the beat in the long run by the light of his own final 1"! ,2£n_:l ____ The day had been an eventful one for Hugh Massin er: the most eventful and Brennan of h 3 whole history. As long as e ved, he could never possibly forget it. It has indeed a critical turniog~poiut for three sepsratelivesâ€"his own, and Elsie'a and Winifred Mrysey'r. For, as Hugh had walked that morning, stick in hand and orchid in buttonhole, down the rose‘embow. cred lane in the Squire's grounds with Wini- fred, he had asked the fri htened, blushing girl, in simple and straig tforward langu- age, without any preliminary, to became his wife. llis shy fish was fairly hooked at last, he thought now : no need for daintily playing his catch any longer ; it was but a question, as things stood, of reel and of landinsr‘net. The father and mother, those important accessories. were pretty safe in their way too. He had sounded them both by unobtrusive methods, with dex- terous plummets of oblique inquiry. and had gauged their profoundest depths of opinion with tolerable accuracy, asto settle- ments and other ante-nuptial precontraote of marriage. For what is the use of catch- al pretensions as their fufure son-i‘n-law? Hugh Mossinger was keen enough sports- man in his own line to make quite sure of .his expected game before irrevocably com- .mitting himself to duck-shot cartridge. He was confident he knew his ground now 3 so, with a. bsid face and a modest assurance, he ventured, in a few plain and well-chosen words, to command his suit, his hand, and his heart to Winifred Meysey’s favourable attention. ' :0HAP1‘ER X.â€"-Slwrrusu 11' OFF. But when fiugh had left his landed p tho front door of the square-built n house, and strolled off by himself to the village inn, the dillioulty about for the first time began to stare him a in the face in all its real and horrid n tude. He would have to confess and ‘ plain to Elsie. Worse still, for a m: his mettle and his sensitiveness, he s have to apologize for and excuse his conduct. That was unendurableâ€"tha lgnominious~that was even nlnnrr‘ ing an heiress on your own rod, if your heir- ou'a parents. upon wheae testamentary dia- itiou in the last resort her entire mar- et value really depands, look aekance with eyes of obvious uixteveur‘upon your person- “ lie dces n love me for my birtn. Nor for mylands so brand and fair: lie loves me for my own true worth, And that is Well," said Lady Clare. That was how Hugh Massinger loved her, she was quite sure. Had he not trembled and hesitated to ask her? Her bosom flut- tered with a delicious fluttering ; but she cast her eyes down. and answered nothing for a brief space. Then her heart gave her courage to look up once more, and to mur- mur back. in answar to his pleading look : “Hugh. I love you.” And Hugh. carried away not ungraoefnlly by the impulse of the moment. felt his own heart thrill responsive to here in real earnest, and in utter temper. ary forgetfnlness of poor betrayed and abandoned Elsie. They walked back to the Hall together next minute, whispering low, in the fool’s paradise, indeed, for those two poor llovers, whose wooing set out under sng‘h evil auspices. ' 9i o ihion. New Winifred yes al 2131133: hecl‘hbt npvery exceptional and erl‘sgulzll: 1,. chance for an briefless barrister ; y(f)um1 un- ' t doesn’t get such chances o, aligftZd heiress everyday fffhtglelztehle’r Eli: may take your sin uvr .d and waited for by on sentimental groun ‘s,. 1 ‘ old Maleâ€"heaven on y lgmme-hggryrloggemthey might both have to b l “‘39 anotherâ€"end perhaps even their: tlfirgsswefi; mminted. It was afoohs "’n‘ to es. the truth face with naked mail”? y ’ naked lâ€"let her know she niust'6.would out another husland somewhere {or hem or go on earning her own livelihood, in maid- en meditation fnncy irce, for the rema term of her natural existence. never help ending up a subje unplcusnt, afined it. The seaguqsoawscfl ining Hugh could ct, however even in his own mind, with e. poetical tag; it was a. trick of manner his soul had caught from the wonted peroration of his political leaders in the first editorial column of that exalted print, the illorniug Telephone. So he made up his mind; and he proposed to Winifred. The girl’s heart gave a sudden bound, and the red blood flushed her somewhat pillid film" With “a“? roses as she listened to II"‘\,n n..-,._£._l , I , ”a _......‘, .vuvu an out: "5081180 to Hugh’s graceful and easy avowal of the pro- found and unfeigned love that he proffered her. She thought of the poem Hugh had read her aloud in his sonorous tones the evening beforeâ€"much virtueliu a judiciously selected passage of poetry, well marked in delivery; rw-_-...v, .uuvcu, lUl' tnOBO two , whose wooing set out under mpicea. Hugh had left his landed pray at ’or of the square-built manor- atrolled ofl‘ by hi_mse]f towards 3-... LL- ,Ignv - . vllV 3 that. Elsie hie-(i Mm '. 'l‘ruo, they had never no anotherâ€"m great In the 7 in man, that eVen alone ugh continued to hug that g . knA _ - ‘ , ‘ ' SUNSHINE AND SHADE. d deeply-Jar Mm- pitied his own and int then, there Was 0. ‘N9 930 in the non‘ld magni. nfesa and to ex. . for»? man of '9 he 7 Wdufd him oxiéiif. Elsie 0 W!) OR, .. .umuuu "0W, Al d3 his Séii'tévbreak It gently to l‘ He was early [or his appointment : but by the tree he found Elsie. in her pretty white dress, already waiting for him. His heart gave a jump, 11 pleased jump, as he saw her sittingthore before her time. Dear, (leer Elsie; she was very, very'imul of him 1 lie would have riven worlds in fling his arms tight aroum her then, ullvlnimin her to his bosom and kiss iur tenderly. He would have given Worlds, but not his reversiunnry chances in the Whitontrnnd property. Worlds don’t count; the entire foo-simple of Mars and Jupiter Would (etch nothin in the real saute mnrket. "n was lmnnfl by contract to Winnifrerl now, and he must do 'Il- run-6 I- L_-_I n. - _ u r ..... ;uu "Hayley! and Winifred had gone out to dinner at a neighboring Vicarage ; but Elsie had stopped at home on purpose, on the hasty plea of some slight easing headache. Hugh had specially flied her to wait and meet him. Better get It all over at once, he thought to himself, in his short-sighted wisdom-liko the measles or the chicken-poxâ€"and know straight oil" exactly where he stood in his new position with these two women. Women were the greatest nuisancein life. For his own part, now he came to look the thing squarely in the face, he really wished he was well quit of them all for good and ever. fond of him, undeniably fond oi him, and he had perhaps from time to time, by overt acts. undusy encouraged the display of her fondness. It gratified his vanity and his sense of his own power over women to do so: he could make them love himâ€"few man more easilyâ€"and he liked to exercise that dangerous faculty on every suitable object that ilitted across his changeiul horizon. The man with a mere passion for making con(}uests affords no serious menace to the wor d's happiness; but the man with an innate gift for calling forth wherever he goes all the deepest and truest in- stincts of a woman's nature, isâ€"when he abuses his powerâ€"the most deadly, terrible, and cruel creature known in our age to civilised humanity. And yet he is not always deliberately cruel ;sometimes, as in Hugh Massinger'e case, he almost be- lieves himself to be good and innocent. llevee himself to be cod and innocent. He had warned \ inifred to whisper noth- ing for the present to Elsie about this on- engement of theirs. Elsie was his cousin, he saidâ€"his only relationâ€"and he would dearly like to (0'1 her the secret of his heart himself in private. He would see her that evening and break the news to her. “ Whv break it 2" Winifred had asked in doubt, all unconscious. And Hugh. a strange sup- pressed smile playing uneasily about the corners of his thin lips, had answered with guileloss alacrity of speech : “ Because Elsie’s like a sister to me. you know, Wini- fred ; and sisters always to some extent resent the bare idea of their brothers marry- ing." For as yet Elsie herself suspected no- thin . It was best, Hugh thought, she shou d suspect nothing. That was a'car- dinal point in his easy-going practical phil- osophy of life. He never went half-way to meet trouble. Till Winifred had accepted him, why worry poor dear Elsie’s gentle lit- tle soul with what was, after all, a mere re- mote chsnce, a contingent possibility 2 He would first make quite sure, by actual trial where he stood with \Vinifred ; and thenâ€" and then, like a thunderbolt_from a clear sky, he might let the whole truth burst in full force at once upon poor lonely Elsie’s devoted head. Meanwhile, with ex- traordinary cleverness and care, he contin- ued to dissemble. He never made open love to Winifred before Elsie’s face ; on the con- trary, he kept the whole small comedy of his relations with Winifred so skilfully con- cealed from her feminine eyes, that to the very last moment Elsie never even dreamt of her pretty pupil as a possible rival, or re- garded her in any other conceivable light than as the nearest of friends and the dearest of sisters. Whenever Hugh spoke of Wini- fred to Elsie at all, he spoke of her lightly, almost slightingly, as a nice little girl, in her childish wayâ€"though much too blued -â€"with a sort of distant bread-and- butterish schoolroom approbation, which wholly misled and hoodwinked Elsie as to his real intentions. And when- ever he spoke of Elsie to Winifred, he spoke of her jestingly, with a good-humored, un- meaning, brotherly affection that made the very notion of his ever contemplating mar- riage with her seem simply ridiculous. She was to him indeed as the deceased wife's sister is in the eye of the law to the British widower. With his easy, oil-hand London {‘9 verncss, he had ballled and deceived both “1- quefimgcent, simple-minded, trustfulwo- ng little do,},éM0d face to face new with a lld Would Elfiiu..l;l-1“‘hWhiCh could no long- or against him 9 “Amie: ggltimate 00339' , w -v-uruvv u: marriage. With such transparent internal sophisms did Hugh Massinger strive all day to stifle and smother his own conscience : for every man always at least pretends to has up ap- pearances in his private relations With that domestic censor. But as evening came on, cigarette in month, he strolled round after dinner, by special appointment, to meet Elsie at the big poplar. They often met there, these warm summer nights; and on this articular occasion, anticipating trouble, _..,......a., .cpuumteu. He was a barrifié}: ‘and he knew his ground in these matters. Chitty on Contract; lays it down as an estab~ Nonsenseâ€"nonsense. He had never really )iaie-â€"he had said so to her faces sand times. If Elsie chose to mi pret his kind attentions, bestowed her eoibly as his one remaining ther chem N 0 cause for been engag would never be no foolish as to fail b into Elsie'e selfimposed error, and tt him to a bargain he had over and over expressly repudiated. He was I: ban and he knew his ground in these mu {”‘Iiffite I‘- F__n,, . - . \Vould 1min iu‘iu‘a’il‘fll against him? W'ould \Vi diguaut at his conduct to learned the whole truth, him? kind attentions, bestowed upon y as his one remaining cousin 'oman. the only other channel for of the Massingere. surely Winifred 1“. I“. -n :--n, , on: internal aophismn utrivo all day to stifle conscience; for every reoenda to kee up up- te relatiopa With that N 0 cause for alarm rtcll notllln 3' was bounfl and he mutt Ellie. “mu-m all his ”fie: When..- refuse to marry to fall blindly '9 find to hold Ilia hem-t 0 saw her "NW. (10M him! n" ggain ‘3'. ” you never, nah}. (30‘ Itepped up and klued her quietly on th .orehead. and took her hend In his like a brother. Elsie let it lie in her own with- out n remonntrenee. They rose end walked in lawn guise along the bank together. Hie earl: sank within him at the hideous task i 6 had next to erlormâ€"nothing less than to break poor F. We hear: {or her. If only he could hove shutlled out of it eido- ways anyhow ! But shullling was itn i. ble. He hated himself 3 and he loved 'llsie. Never till that moment did he know how he loved‘her. This would never do! He was feeling like a fool. i‘le crushed down the love steruly in his heart, and began to talk about indifferent subjectsâ€"the wind, the river, the rose-show at the Vicarage. But his voice trembled, betraying him still against his wlll; and he could not refrain from stealing sidelong looks at Elsie’s dark eyes now and again, observing how beauti- ful she was, after all, in a rare and exquisite type of beauty. Winifred's blue eyes and light brown hair, Winifred's small mouth and moulded nose, Winifrod’s insipid smile and bashful blush, cheap as dirt in the mat- rimonial lottery. She had but a doll-like, Lowther Arcade style of prettiness. Maid- enly as she looked, one twist more of her nose, one shade lighter in her hair, and she would become simrly bar-maidenly. But Elsie's strong and powerful. \ earnest face. w'th its serious lips and its lon black 0 slashes, its Profound pathos an its womanly dignity, its very Irregularity and faultiness of outline, leased him ten thousand times more than a l your baby~fac~ ed beauties of the conventional, stereoty ed, ballroom pattern. He looked at her ong and sighed often. Must he really break her heart for her? At last he could restrain that unruly member, his tongue, no longer. “ Elsie,” he cried, eyeing her full in a gen- uine outburst of spontaneous admiration, “ I never in my life saw any one anywhere one-half so beautiful and graceful as you are! awerea bitterly with 'a sudden, poof of ab- jeet remorse: ”and u long an “ And vet-you ere gcing to merry Winifred l" “ Elele I You and I were never engaged." She turned round upon him fiercely with a burst of horror. lle, to take refuge in that hollow excuse! "Never engegtd 1" she cried, aghast. “You mean it, Hughâ€"you menu that mockery ?-â€";\nd 1. who would Innu- _ Evlsie smiled a pleased smile. “And yet,” she murmufred, with e half~me1icioue, teas- ing tone 0 irony "We're not engeged llqgh, after_ell, yen reqnexgber." ’ Her words came at the very wrong moment; they brought the hot blood at a a rush into Hugh‘s cheek. "No,“ he answered coldly, with a sudden re- vulsion and a spasmodic efl'ort: “we're not engagedâ€"nor ever will ‘be, Eleie ! " Elsi: tcurned round it on him with sudden abruptness in blank wilderment. She was not angry ; she was nothstonished ; she simply failed altogether to take in his mean- ing. It had always seemed to her so per- fectly natural, so simply obvious that she‘ and Hugh were sooner or later to marry one another; she had always regarded Hugh's frequent reminder that they were not en- gaged as such a mere playful warning against too much precipitancy ; she had al- ways takon it for granted so fully and unreservedly that whenever Hugh was rich enough to provide for a wife he would tell her so plainly, and carry out the im- plied engagement between themâ€"that this sudden announcement of the exact opposite meant to her ears less than nothin . ‘ And now, when Hugh uttered those crutfi, crushing, annihilating words, “ Nor ever will be, Elsie,” she couldn’t possibly take in their reality at the first blush, or believe in her own heart that he really in- tended anything so wicked, so merciless, so unnatural. W- _.-'â€"n“\ll uuuil‘ 1y. "Yonlovo mo,"ahe murmured. “Hugh, Hugh, you still love me 2' H Elsie hid her hunt! on his shoulder ly. "You love mo,"ahe murmured. “ Hugh, yiou am} love me 2' -... uvulu no: or me own mere motion hove proposed to Winifred. She looked M:~ him hard : he queiled before her scrutiny. “I love you, Elsie," he burnt out with an irreeietlble Impulse .1: loot, on she and lthrlough and through him from long look as ea. ‘vâ€"R‘NiSi-Nék at will be 1" aha cried, incredu- lous. "Why, Hugh, Hugh, â€"I don't un- derstand y ou_’ “mum ”“5“ mere : so 1 mean to marry her.'" - throat 'I " Hugh 1" ‘ She uttered only that one short word in a tone of awful and unspeakable agony. But her bent bromx, her pallid face, her husky voice, her startled attitude, said more than a thousand words, however wild, could pos- sibly have said for her. She took itin dimly and im erl'ectly now; she began to grasp what uuh was talking about; but as yet she could not understand to the full all the lman’s roiound and unfathomed infamy. [She loo ed at him feebly for some word of explanation. Surely he must have some deep and subtle reason of his own for this astonishing act and fact of iurtive treachery. Some horrible combination of adverse circumstances, about which she know and could know nothing, must have driven him a ainst his will to this incredible solutiono an insoluble problem. He could notgf his own more motion Inn-m Hugh ateeled his heart with a violent strain to answer back in one curt, killing sentence : " I mean it, Elsie ; I'm going to many Winiffedfli -- a nu Eiaie gazed back at him in speechless sur- prise. “ Going to marry Winifred 2" she echoed M: last vaguely, after a long pause. as if the words conveyed no meaning to her ipd. “ Going to marry Winifred? To u l‘blig‘ifred lâ€"Hugh, did you really and u . .. . answered on??? ‘3“, goxng to marry “ ml. and “1““? eye; “anu war Elsie : so I moan t 1““ Hugh 1" o marry he ning ” Hugh 1'. h 3' throat ,, fl.-- «nu-"v. " ll". ' the murmured slow- '. never meant it." ,V ___..-..... v- :oa, about which she know nothing. must Linnt his will to this on insoluble problem. 8““8 to marry Ls: PM blind- ti He at down. unmanned, on the graae by the bank. She seated herself by hie aide. mechanically as it were, with her hand on his arm. and looked straight in front of her with a vacmt atare at the angry water. It wan growing dark. The shore was dark, and the sea. and the river. Everything was dark and black and gloomy around her. She laid hi: hand one moment in her own. “ Hugh l" she cried. turning toward: him with appealing pathos, you don't mean it now: you will never mean it. You're only sxying it to try and prove me. Tell me it's that! You're yourself still. 0 Hugh. my Shrllng. you can never mean it‘l.” Her words burnt. into his brain like li- quid fire: the better 3011 within him groan- ed and feltered; but he crushed it down with en iton heel. The demon o‘. avarice held his sordid soul. “ My child, ” he said, with n tcnder inflection iny his voice as he eaid it, “ we must understand one another. Ldo eenioualy intend to marry Winifred Meyee . - “ Why 2” There was a terrible de th of suppressed earnestness in that sharps ort why, wrung out of her by anguish, as of a Woman who asks the reason of her death~warrant. Hugh Massinger answered it slowly and awkwardly With cumbroua round- about, selfexeulpating verbosity. As for Elsie, she sat like a statue and lis- tened; rigid and ,immevable, she sat there still 3 while Hugh, for the very first time in her whole experience, revealed the actual man he really was before her appalled and horrified and speechless presence. He talked of his position, his prospects, his abilities. He talked of journalism, of the bar, of pro» motion. He talked of literature, of poetry, of fame. He talked of money, and its abso- lute need to man and woman in these lat- ter days of ours. He talked of Winnifred, of Whi‘testrand, and of the Me sey manor- house. “ It‘ll be best in the en for us both, you know, Elsie," he said argumentatively, in his foolish rigmarole, mistaking her silence for something like unwilling acqui- escence. “Of course I shall still be very fond of you, as I’ve always been fond of youâ€"like a cousin onlyâ€"and I'll be a brother to you new as long as I live: and when Winifred and I are really married, and I live here at \\ hitestrand, I shall be able to (lo a great deal more for you, and help you by every means in my power, and introduce you freely into our own circle. on dif- ferent terms, you know, where you'll have changes of meetingâ€"well. suitable In her 58‘ rather than stood there. anions. You must see ..yourself it’s the st jhing fox: u_s__bobh. Th_e idea of t_wo pennilesa ‘fieople like you and me marrying one another in the present eta to of society is simply ridiculous." “a- â€" " ..v-v Wluse One moment ehe fled and stumbled in the dark along the granny path toward the roots of the pier. Then he caught a glimpse of her or a eeeond, dimly silhouetted in the faint starlight, a wen white fl are with outstretched arme a ainat the back horizon. She was pols ng, irreeolute,‘ on the gnarled roots. It wae but for the twinkling of an eye that he saw her; next instant, a splash, agurgle, a shriek of terror, and he beheld her borne wildly away, a helpleee burden, by that fierce current to- ward: the breaker-e that glistened white and reared hoareely in their savage joy on the. bar of the river. She heard him out to the bitter end, re- vealingfihe naked deformity of his inmost nature, though her brain reeled at it, with- out one passing word of reproach or dissent. Then she said in an icy tone of utter horror: “ Hugh 1" “ Yes, Elsie.” “ Is that all 2" “ That is all." “ And you mean it 1’" “ I mean it." “ Oh, for Heaven's sake, before you kill me outright, Hugh, Hugh 1 is it reall; true? Are you really like that? Do you really mean it i" “ I really mean to marry \Vinifred." Elsie clasped her two hands on either side of her head, as if to hold it together from bursting with her agony. “Hugh," she cried, " it's foolish, 1 know, but I ask you once more, before it’s too late, in sight of Heaven, I ask you solemnly, are you seriously in earnest? 13 that what you're made of'! Are you going to desert me? To desert and betray me?" ..vs 1 deliriously. She hard~ I ly knewwhatshefeltordid. Madwithagony. love, and terror, she rushed away headlong from his polluted presenceâ€"not from Hugh, but from this fallen idol. He saw her white dress disappearin fast through the deep loom in the direegon of the poplar tree, and e roped his wa after her, almost as mad as erself, strucz dumb with remorse and awe and shame at the ruin he had visibly and instantly wrought in the fabric of that trustful girl’s whole being._ “an Inning-.‘L hl, II - “Idon't know what §ou mean,” Hugh answered stonily, rising as if to go â€"for he could stand it no longer. “ I’ve never been engaged to you. I always told you so. I owe you nothing. And now I mean to marry \Vinifred." With a cry of agony, she burst wildlyl‘ away from him. She saw it all now; she understood to the full the cruelty and base- ‘ ness of the :11 13’s innermost underlying na- 136. F sir outside; but false, false, false hard fare} SEEM: even so, she could sfcarcle- loved and true g3 faith of a lifetime 0119' t the universe _ he ‘0 eighth“ Hugh she had lous selfiSlmess ! He to 2mm Hugh in all . . urn u r... - wnh hlsempty phrases! Ho to sellll “31253;, ' man h the guilt and the sin of it! gerolllzidl "(2);: od_nnd swam round mammal- m- LN . _.- ..v..uu\-u-’ one. will of anyuof those forms has been the intermediate strata down ‘ timo. The chimera certalr‘ has been eeen capmrer' rare, however, and the present oer“ egelnet fl" urged ' | Hare of the British ship Fli, when in t e ' ‘ ’ eing unusually calm and transparent saw at the bottom a large marine animal with the head and general figure of an alligator. but the nook much lon er. and with tonrlarge paddles instead 0 legs. My own belief is that some, at any rate, of the stories relating to sup ed sea ser- pents are to be explained by t e theory that there still exist creatures such as Capt. Ho 9 describedâ€"long-nocked reptillian forms ak n to the Dolichodeiros of former a es. Such creatures would present all the c araoteria- tics reco nized in the so-cailed sea ser ents. Their pa dies would enable them to n: vance without perceptible undulation (which the sea serpent has been observed to do, and which no actual serpentine creature could do). The great objection to this‘view has been that we find no fossil pies osaurs in tertiary strata. But this objectio loses its force when we note that thn n Inn-- I- She had nothln to llvo for. There was no Hugh ; sud shy» M! not_killod hvfofl. T110“ two dlm xhou_ bu wem‘he lent the knew as her eyes close in the tubing cur rent : there had never been 3 Hugh; and she had fallen in by accident. Denlwnn otllw Sea an Yet l'nknownâ€" strange Sen Stunner». A few yous ego a sea moneter, corres- pending in appearance to the famed sen serpent as often described (which in not saying tint the creature was naerpent), was seen by Capt. Austin Cooper and the otficere and crew of the (Isrlule Castle, then bound for Melbt nrre. A descripton and sketch of the monster appeared in the Argus._ _‘ . -... . ‘- .. .. . 0n Se t. 11, at 105 A. LL, the third oilicer of) the British steamship Nestor, then in the Malacca Straits, announceda shoal. Surprised to find a shoal in such a well-known track, Capt. Webster watched the object and found that it was in motion. keeping up the same speed as the ship and retaining about the same distance as when first seen. “ The shape of the creature," said the Captain (in an affidavit before Donald Spence, acting Law Secretary to the Danish Supreme Court at Shanghai), “I would com are to that of agigantic frog. Thehead,o apale,yellowishcclor, was about twelve feet in length, and six feetof the crown was above the water. I tried in vain to make out the month," he proceeds, “but the mouth may have been below water. The head was immediatly connected with the body without any indication of a neck. The body was about forty~five or fifty feet long and of an oval shape perfectly smooth, but there may have been a slight ridge along the spine. the back rose some five feet ‘above the surface. An immence tail 150- feet in length, rose a few inches above the water. This tail I saw distinctly from its junction with the body to its extremity. It seemed cylindrical, with a very slight taper, and I estimate its diameter at four feet. The body and tail were marked with alternate bands or stripes, black and pale yellow in color. The stripes were distinct to the very extremity of the tail. I can- not say whether the tail terminated in a fin or not. The creature possessed no fins or paddles so far as we could perceive. I cannot say if it had legs. It appeared to progress by means of an undulatory motion of the tail in vertical plane. " It may be remembered that in 18738 monstrous cuttlefish was encountered 1) two fisherman in Conception Boy,Newfoun - land. “'hen attacked. the creature threw its long arms across the fisherman's boat, which it appeared to regard as a veritable object of prey ; but one of the fishermen cut off the tentacle with an axe, on which the cephalopod withdrew, apparently regarding the man's action as unfair. This tentacle was twent-yfive feet in length ; and as the fishermen considered that it was cut off fully ten feet from the body, the entire length of the tentacle must have been about thirty-five feet. They estimated the body at sixty feet in length and five feet in diamet I: VI 15’: army, passing ath-iâ€"n a few yin‘i’i of la cmoe, and swimming toward; 3 small 'l‘lnfl Ant-IA- 0--._A n u In 1861 the French war steamer Aleotro encountered a monster cuttle at sea. about 120 miles northeast of Tenerifi‘e. The crew got a noose around the body, but unfortunnt ately it slipped to the tail, which it pulled The weight of this little bit of the creature was found to be over forty pounds. It was estimated that the body was £0 feet long and the weight not less than 4,C00 P‘.".‘.“d°~ . u ‘ . n _ ,, ,_ -.-., “nu-awn nu ulxcy xeen. Some ten years ago Commandant Villen- euve and the ofl‘cers of the French man-oi- war the Lsndre saw a creature correspond- ing in appearance with the sea ser out travelling rapidly along, the head slightly raised above the water, and with a sort of mane streaming backward, while the back of a lone body could be seen under the water. A creature exactly answering to this description was seen by Major James Harding, then an officer in the King of Vigis's srmv. nmina an”- .. 4-- .____j: . Th3 most remarkable account of a sea mon- ster oi this kind was that given by the Cap- tain and oflioera of the Pauline. It was sworn to 01 oAth by George Drevar, the Captain; Horatio Thompson, chief mate ; John Lan- della, second mate, and by the steward and a. seumon. On July 8 we observed three large sperm whales, one of which was gripped round the body by two turns of what: appeared to be a. huge serpent. The head and tail appear- ed to have a. length beyond the coils of about thirty feet, and a girth of eight or nine feet. The creature whirled the Whale round and round for ob )ut fifteen minutes and then suddenly drugged it to the bottom head first. 4" d: 's 12:52” the esmecreature, or a sim Hui-:30, ‘v’vas seen about two hundred yards ‘ and 1Wip, darliugalong the surface, he? Capt. Drevns‘a‘huogf» of the water. On y ' -' "4' amen saw this. But A few minutesuimx '32.- ”40min, first mate, and two seamen saw the monster raise its neck and head above the water to a height which they estimated at sixty_f_eet. Snmn fan I‘nn-n -u- n, - _._ SBA MONSTERS. 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