Evening Star Newspaper, May 22, 1921, Page 67

o FICTION | MAGAZINE SECTION - The Sy Shae, | FEATURES Part 4—8 Pages WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNIN , MAY 99 —-=y 1921. Exciting Work in Trapping a Herd of Sixty Eleph By Charles Mayer Illustrated by WAITED on the beach at Treng- ganu for a few minutes, until the German steamer was well out of the way;: then I sent my Chinese boy into the village to engage living| quarters. He returned presently with the information that a Chinese trader had offered to put me up. Ali and 1 followed him up the street of the vil- lage, with a group of inquisitive ‘natives at our heels. Soon after I finished my first meal \at the trader's house a tunku (petty prince) appeared with his followers. The mecting was solemn and formal, and he went through the ritual of in- quiring after my health, though I could see that inqusitiveness was gnawing at him. At last he asked bluntly what my object was in coming to Trengganu. “I have come to see the sultan on fmportant business.” He told me that it would be impos- sible for me to see the sultan and of- fered to deliver my message. 1 waved him aside and told him that I must see the sultan personally. * he replied, and depart- ed in the direction of the palace. The palace was a half-finished, two-story brick dwelling. The sultan had never been able to gather enough money to have tne building completed; but, at that, it was the most imposing house in Trengganu. An hour later I started out with Ali and the Chinese boy for the palace to pay my respects to the sultan and make another request for an inter- Will Crawford. ably see the wisdom of allowing me |to_enter his country and capture the {elephants. Also 1 suggested that he | would receive a bonus on each animal | T captured. He nodded and asked me to come to the palace the next day. | Each day for three weeks I cailed | on him and spent hours in telling him |of my travels. And he told me some- thing of the worries of being a_sul- tan. He was afraid that one of the big powers would establish a protec torate over Trengganu, depose him and reduce his people to slavery. He knew very little of foreigners, but he had come to the conclusion that the best thing to do was to keep them out. What did T think was the best plan? We held long conferences, in which I enlightened him on the way of white men. The subject of ele- phant hunting scarccly came into the conversations, but 1 knew that he had sent messengers out to see if there was any truth in my story about the herd crossing from Pahang. 1 was slowly winning his confidenc everything depended upon the truth | of that rumor I had picked up in Singapore. * k k% TXACTLY three weecks after our first meeting he greeted me with the words: “Tuan chakap betul (Sir, you spoke the truth.)” . ¢ ays speak the truth,” I an- swered, as if T were annoyed. The messengers had returned with the news that the herd had been seen near the Pahang river. He asked what I proposed to do, and I drew a diagram of the trap I wanted to build. He asked if it would not be a better plan to shoot the big clephants and capture the young. 1 | jungle was still | HIRD Article of Series Tells of Trapping on a Huge Scale—The Visit to a Sultan. Gaining Permission to Use Traps—Two Weeks of Hunting to Find the Ele- ; | phants—Traveling Through a Dense Jungle, Creepers, Undergrowth and Vines. { The Herd Is Sighted by Scouts—Building the Traps—Driving Huge Animals at | : Night—The Trap Is Sprung—Trouble With Natives—The Sultan Visits the Camp. | ing to see the rapidity with which they cut down the big trees and slashed trails through the jungle. Omar and 1 were with them constant- 1y, keeping up their enthusiasm and excitement. Tn building the trap we took great carc not to disturb the jungle through which the elephants were to be driven. Like all jungle animals, elephants can see at night, and theré is always the danger of a stampede ions are taken against arousing suspicion. The jungle lead- ing up to the wings was untouched, and the wings and the trap could carcely be _distinguished from the i| dense growth that surrounded them. and in the trap the the runway . standing without In injury. When the stockade was completed |an old Siamese priest offered to per- form the ceremony that would bring the blessing of the deity of the jungle upon the drive. A white cock was found and fastened in the center of the trap. The priest selected a hun- dred men and stationed them near the entrance with fruits and branches of, trees; then, with two natives, he withdrew into the jungle. Presently we heard them shouting, They came through the undergrowth, chanting and striking the trees with their spears and parangs. The priest rushed through the runway into the trap and seized the cock. With his knife he severed its head. Then. while the natives joined in a chorus of shouts, he ran about the trap, BABY.ELEPHANTS ARE PLAYFUL AND AFFECTIONATE. WE MADE PETS OF THEM. view. At the gate 1 was met by a tunku, who told me that the suitan ‘would not receive me. 1 returned to the trader's house and_slept through the hot afternoon. When evening came I went again to the palace and “met with the same reception. * % % % TWICE a day for an entire week 1 called at the palace. I appeared to be making no headway, but I had! been associated with the Malays long enough to know that the sultan could not bear the strain much longer. Also, 1 knew that if I gave a tunku the least inkling of my purpose all my hopes of hunting in Trengganu would be wrecked. The sultan gave in at last; he sent word to the gate that he would re- ceive me, and 1 was ushered into the “reception room” of the palace. The sultan, a.middle-aged. scholarly-look- ing man, was waiting for me, with his retinue squatted around him. 1 ®ave him my card. “What is it?" he asked. “My name,” I reflied. bowing. “What country are you from?" “America.” He looked surprised, and asked if 1 was English, French or Dutch; he thought that all white men must be of one of those races and that Ameri- ca was probably a colony. Fortunately I had some maps with me. 1 spread them on the floor and held a class in geography, with the rultan and his retinue bending over listening intently. ‘The sultan on the subject of America as if he had discovered th. country. 1 told him about vur Pre dent and how he is elc #tates and governors and the Jatures and Congres At last he los and asked why 1 had ¢ ganu. 1 told him T ha legis- Treng- to trap animals and I wanted his permission He zhook his head an wd that there were no animals 1: Trengganu ou will send your ressengers 1 answered, “3ou w :i find that an immense herd of elcihants crossing_ from Pahang into countr. “How do_you know I heard.” It was a and 1 could see that he w ed. A roaming herd dangerous: it rorizes the natives portant of all—reduces the income He ordered coffee and Malav cake and plunged into though:. The cof fee was muddy and bitter, but drank it joyfully be suitan, being worried, nswer, interes shants ter. im- sultan’s e PSR «vd, about the| 1!them with vines and leaves. put stress on the royalty payments he would receive, and thus I won him to my way of thinking. He assigned his nephew Omar—a tunku—to the duty of assisting me, and gave him full power to force as much labor as we might need. A few tdays later Omar and I, accompanied by the sultan, sailed down the coast to the Pahang. It was a wide, deep iriver, infested with crocodiles; settle- ments dotted the banks. At each ofl these we stopped and called on the headman to conscript labor. Since the men had to supply their own food and travel in their own | boats, the cost of the expedition was reduced to nothing. We arranged that the men might be replaced by others from their villages, becuuse they were loath to remain long away from their families. Five days after leaving the capital we arrived at the place where the herd had been located. We disem- barked. There -followed two weeks of hunting before we found the spoor that told us we had reached the elephants. It was a dense jungle: undergrowth, |creepers and vines hound the trees | together. ~ The lack of sunlight and | the dense atmosphere made progress slow. Sometimes the task of driving elephants on foot through such coun-; try seemed hopeless, but I kept the men at work, hacking out trails with | parangs—their big knives. The in- {scets were frightful, and were all covered with bites. 1 developed fever nd went about so roggy” that I was not at all sure of myself: but huge doses of quinine and the excite- ment of tracking so large a herd kept me going. I The scouts reported that the herd | numbered about one hundred. 1 a signed fifty men to surround the ele- phants and keep them moving in a icircle within a definite area while we built the stockade. * x x % |"THE work of making the trap was prodigious. Trees. twenty to { twenty-five feet in length and a foot {and a half in diameter, were cut down and dragged through the jungle for half a mile or more to the spot I| ‘had sclected. These were planted five {feet in the ground and braced by ! three smaller trees, o that they could stand the enormous pressure of cle- ng to lunge through them. he trap was round—about seventy- jeach one hundred feet long, converg- ing to the entrance. After planting jand bracing all the posts we bound !them together with heavy ropes made of twisted rattan and then covered ¥or all sprinkling the blood. Instead of coming out through the gate he crawled between the posts. The cere- mony ended and the natives were ready to begin the hunt. Word came from the men who were watching that the herd was four miles away. I gathered the natives around me, explained all the details of the drive and assigned men to the various tasks. Then we started in a body_to get behind the herd. Every five hundred yards I stationed'a man in a tree to steer the drive. . * % k % ‘G elephants at night is a 1t RIV slow, trying, dangerous job. tarough dense jungle and keeing up a continual hubbub of tomtoms and shouts. The elephants wish to avoid e and they move slowly, crashing through the trees and vines. The men who are directly WITH A WHITE COCK FOR AN can follow the trails broken by the elephants: those on the side must cut trails with thejr parangs. No lights can be used, and care must be taken to avoid the little elephants, which roam about investigating the no i this work the.natives had no tools except their parangs. It was amaz-l If they see a man and give the danger signal the entire herd stampedes. ¢ ! THE SIAMESE PRIEST STUMBLED AND FELL BEFORE I COULD SHOOT THE ELEPHANT FELL UPON HIM. behind have the easiest time, for theylthen I gave the signal and started!fan to fend off a cyclone. ‘When we arrived behind the herd 1|safety. The immense animals loomed spread the men out in a U formation,|up in the darkness for a second and warning them to make no noise until|then disappeared. 1In their excite- the signal was given. -With Alilment some collided with trees. standing near me with my cxpress| There, was no need to shoot: it rifle, I waited until darkness camc,| would have been like holding up : I hugge: FFERING, AN OLD CEREMONY TO THE JUNG E DEITY. {forward. Ali, Omar, the priest, my {Chinese boy and a 'few others fol- lowed along behind me, shouting. The noise was taken up on each side of us, and presently we heard the ele- phants moving forward, throwinz their great hulks against the jungle growths. The night was black, and | we stumbled on, guided only by the calls of the men'in the trees. Insects | swarmed about us, biting until we | were frantic. Sometimes the noise on ther the left or the right suddenly icreased and we knew that the herd ad veered in that direction and that the men were frightening them off. Dawn came, and we found that we had driven them a mile and a half. It had been exhausting work. I posted guards to watch the herd, and we slept until late In the afternoon. Our badies wero covered with welts from my tree, keeping my gun in position. I was discouraged; our efforts had been wasted and the herd was scat- tered. That would be a fine story to take back to the sultan. * k% ¥ WHEN the clephants had passed I called to the men. "We lighted torches and searched for the injured. Thrée had been killed and twelve hurt, and I was thankful there weren't more_casualties. We buried the dead. Ali brought up my medical | kit and helped me dress the wounds. After a few hours' sleep 1 found that I wasn't quite so discouraged, and so I called the men together and insect bites and the sting of nettlesq lectured them on the necessity of be- and were torn and scratched by the'ing careful. They showed no signs of sharp vines, and T was throbbing mutiny. and so we started off again again it seemed to me that the enter. |0 Search of the herd. It was not dif- prise was all a wild nightmare. ficult to find them, for they cut a Early the next day the stampede hit;Swath in the jungle to the point us wm;:;:_;;y.::n;nrr;fi.‘ (>, small “ele-| where they stopped, five miles from 5 3 the scene of the stampede. some of the men on the right: he ran| 8 SE0RT O 8 8 o the trees back, trumpeting danger, Th the and spread out the drivers. Every bellowing herd came down upon us. Ali shoved my rifle Anto my hfl;gfl man was alert, and, when night e and 1 jumped behind @ tree. uop ctumbled and fen |ended, we were considerably nearer Siamese priest stumbled and Before I could shoot a big bull ele-|the trap. In the minds of the ele- means fighting every foot of the way| I CLIMBED TO THE PLATFORM AND LOOKED DOWN INTO THE TRAP. THERE WERE SIXTY ELEPHANTS, | gatherea the praised them. men togeth sleep we were convinced t ever seen, much less driven. nal, proached the stockade. went wild with delight. distance from the trap. of them into the trap. elephants bellowed and the mounted the platform and down; I could see nothing but WH The gate crashed down, run through the sockets, phants were trapped. * ¥ Xk % ON my p as an were dancing. y of the Malays. the walls of the stockade, foi emrage the elephants. charge the wall in a body som posts might give away. in an effort to find a way out. the natives danced, ate and Then, when dawn was begini light up the sky, I climed to tl form again and looked down trap. The men, armed with long, form on the top of the posts, celebration was renewed. there breathless, many of them ‘would fall off the platform i trap. But none did fall, phants by sticking them in th and bodies with their spikes. the word passed from village lage. Natives poured in to the catch, It was a hist ‘The sul! was on his way. casion in Trengganu. country before, and never hag state. details of the royal reception cared for the catch. phant stcpped on him and tore him in phants there seemed to be no connec- two, throwing the upper portion of|tion between the noise that was driv- his ‘body over my head. I was spat-|ing them and the men they had seen tered with blood. Elcphants, bellow-|the night before, and they went ing furiously, rushed past us: men|ahead peadeably. screamed and’scrambled for plages of!: Leaving scouts to watch the hrd, 1 small elephants to come out. were several babies in the I 1 wondering in their excitement and the messenger turned with the news that the sultan er hat At nightfall each day the men were again in position, waiting for my sig-|to the younger man, pointing {o the and three nights later we ap-|armor. The men And above the uproar I could hear the calls of|¢¢ the guides in the trees telling us our 'he big beasts jammed in the run- way between the wings, heaving and| when a minute may represent two or struggling, and forcing those ahead|three thousand francs. The substi- The walls of| the wings groaned as they threw their bodies against the posts. natives, 1 kept up a continual pandemonium. looked a toss- ing flood of bigck that poured slowly from the runway into the trap. en the last elephant was inside hadn' < the ropes that held the gate were eut | coral with his flat knife for more than bars were ten minutes when he saw a gray the 'cle-,shadow playing -about his head. latform I shouted as loudly|He had never had such an experience Torches lighted and the men began|Those of the Australian coast rarely 1 slipped to the ground and}atteck a man. The sea is very full of warned them against climbing up on/fish, and there is much easier prey r I was fearful that the sight of men might 1f ‘the beasts £uddenly tock it into their heads to e of the I could hear them milling around inside the trap, bellowing and tearing up the jungle Through the remainder of the night drank. ning to he plat- into the There were sixty elephants! spiked poles, mounted to the running plat- and the, stood how nto the and they fended off the charges of the ele- e heads Omar immediately sent a messenger to the sultan with the good news, and to vil- inspect re- oric oc- tan had never been in the interior of kis own d there been such an elephant- hunt in the Omar busied himself With the while 1T ‘We cut holes in the rattan webbing| to between the posts and enticed the| hi There ot, and and|are—rose to the surface one day a Success rekindled the|little earlier than he was expected. jenthusiasm that had been damped by|The second, his younger brother, was | the stampede, and when we threw|engaged at the ‘moment in cleaning ourselves down to snatch a few hours’|some fish which he had caught with the|a line from the deck. They took off drive would proceed without trouble.|the older man’s helmet and relieved The scouts reported that the herd was|him of his apparel—the cuirass of slightly depleted, but, even so, it was|bronze and leather, and the rest of the largest herd that any of us had|the suit. all impermeable, ending in The|drawers and starfed to find a basin in ants in Trengganu country, filled with animals that my customers wanted to buy, and T h: the exclusive privilege—so far as fo cigners were concerned—of hunting there. And, since the sultan received a bonus on the animals captured he provided me with labor. The sultan remained several days, - and we spent much of our time in talking over the problems of govern- ment. These conversations ended by my becoming a sort of foreign adviser in all dealings with Kuropean coun- tries. Later, before Trengganu Was made a British protectorate, he awarded me some valuable tin con- cessions The new arrangement under the British government was made satisfactorily; he received x suitable pension and he passed hap- Dily into a purely honorary position in his state, relieved of all the com- plexities of political administration. When 1 last saw him he was living in indolent comfort, surrounded by his wives—and his two-story brick palace was at last comopieiei. (Copyright, 1921, by Asiay grow an inch each month. We made pets of them and amused ourselves with_weaning them. We did t v taking a pail of warm milk and dip- ping the babies' trunks into it, then doubling the trunks up and putting them into their owners' mouths, and finally squirting milk in with a squirt gun. The babies soon learned to im | tate this procedure. They were mi chievous little animals, full of fun and inquisitiveness. Hour after hour I played with them and laughed until 1 ached. . * ¥ x % HE sultan arrived with his retinue and we gave him a ceremonial greeting. Deputations from all the villages were present and Omar re- quisitioned food for a great feast. The sultan had little to say about the elephants until T took him up on the platform where he could count them for himself. For a minute he looked t them wide-eyed, then he repeatea, Sir, you spoke the truth.” “I always speak the truth I re- plied, and 1 could see by his expre: sion that he believed me. He was convinced that 1 was honest. 1 knew that T had his protection for any ex- Next Sunday Mr. Mayer will tell, in the magazine of The Star, of methods of breaking peditions 1 might undertake in| | eclephants and of handling | Trengganu. His friendship had been| | i Tons T win. ‘but it was warth the| | them —in their dange trouble—quite aside from the value of moods. the elephants. Trengganu was virginl [_ = ; RSN IN DEEP WATER [ l By Pierre Mill. | thing. These men have strange and disconcerting :Lyl! “A WHOLE hour! It took the diver The a whole hour to get to the top. attack was renewed several times. The Jap, in spitc of his sang- froid, began to shake inside his armor. The shark became more and more en- raged. Now he changed his tactics. He tried to stun the man by striking him with his tail. But the armor re- sisted. Finally he reached the sur- face. “The ladder wasn't there. The ship had turned with the wind. The men on board began to pull the diver around toward the ladder. But since his headpiece was out of the water he could no longer see what was happen- ing beneath. He asked: ‘Where's the shark? What's he doing” “The shark wasn't far away. The Jap felt the grating of pot-hook teeth along his leg. With the other leg he gave a_ kick. - The teeth glided along and fastened in the foot, some penetrating the leather, others bent back by the leaden sole. The pullers felt the weight they were dragging increase enormously. ahey the ark clinging to the diver. S ome one got & rifie and fired. The beast, probably hit, dived. These men are insupportable! Something incomprehensible always happens where they are concerned. The Jap reached the ladder and climbed up. They took off his helmet. His fac and lips were ashy white and his teeth chattered. T “ 1 was attacked by a shark’ he Translated by WILLIAM L. McPHERSON. | Y friend~Samuel Boze was washing his hands—for the tenth time, at least, that aft- ternoon. It is a mania with him. You might believe that he was not a Jew, but & Mussulman, and con- strained by his religion to a ritual of frequent ablutions. I said that to him laughingly in the restaurant wash- room, when he rolled up his sleeves once more, took off the many jeweled rings which he wears on his fingers and piously soaped himself half way up his hairy# foreaFms. He shrugged his shoulders, went out and selected a table and said to me, after ordering oyster cocktails: “You can't ever be clean enough! {You can't ever do enough to avoid carrying some sort of odor about with you. All the things you touch—the leather of the seats in cabs, the cedar wood of pencils, even this scoured spoon—have an odor. That is bad. It is very bad. I have learned that much in my travels.” Six or_eight months out of every twelve Samuel knocks around the world, from the Persian gulf to the islands of Oceanica and to Venezuela, buying pearls from the pearl fishers. {Then he comes back to Europe to sell them. It is a good business, in which there is much adventure. “I learned this he resumed, “on ark, | the reefs of the Great Barrier, near | gaja -That {swi natural: No, that the Frankland Islands, in Australia.| jgn't natural! What .fnuld have bee! You know that there are banks of | the matter with him? C e pearl oysters there, thirty to forty “The older brother 'hr“h‘“n A |meters below the surface, all along| shoulders. He pointed to the N7 1 the coral chain. It is too deend tv‘ar the h\lck%t and said, ‘You ordinary divers such as are used in| your hands.” , = the Persian gulf. You have to anchor | = “Perhaps don't altogether,_un a sailing vessel mear the reefs and|derstand.” uel _cxplained. “The send men down in diving suits. It is| little Jap 'ty washed his hases the roughest sort of work. They have | before put! an ke Alvas e to spend four or five hours on the|He carried with him the oCOF O Ji0re sea bottom, almost crushed by the|and fian. That is what attrac ressure of the water and poison: east. . B the carbonic acid gas caused by| We had reached the :lllg"r:.lursr::“:; their own breathing. The Australians | Boze paid the checl will have none of it. And although | the washroom. the Japanese detest it as much as do Passing Garden Trees. the Anglo-Saxons of the United States, it is almost always some little Jap who makes the descent. 3 ! “On a ship I took to the reefs there | THE garden fruit tree in Washing- were two Jap divers. who relieved ton has gone the way of the fam- each other, one working in the morn- S ateacst o el {nE. the ofher in the afternoon. The|ily coach and ‘: ariming oot first, an old man, dry, courteous and (to find a pear tree, » taciturn—as, in fact. most of them |peach tree in the back yard as to find an iron watchdog on the front steps. N Th the back yards of old Washing- ton there used to be good fruit trees. They may not have been of muc commercial importance, but they lent their aid to the family table in the way of fresh ripe fruit and preserves. Several things have conspired 1o bring about the disappearance of the back yard fruit tree. In the first place the back yard has shrunk so that after furnishing a site for the garage there is just room enough for a little plot of grass and a bed of nasturtiums or 2 narrow border of sweet williams and sweet alyssum. Modern back yards are mot as capacious as tho ancient back yards of thirty or fifty years ago. and if by chance a man, by his own thrift, or by inheritance can afford to own a sizable back yard in the city he is apt to call it “a lawn at the rear of the house. d_to plant it with dwarf golden arbor Vitae, little silver firs, a magnolia or a flowering apple. The planting of a home pear tree or a regular ap- ple tree does not seem to occur to him. He goes in for landscapes, gardening and mot for fruit raising. There is a sudden popularity in back yard grape arbors, but this is to be accounted for mot by any r markable increase in the, popularity of grapes as fresh fruit, but becau: of other uses to which grapes may be put. Reasoning by analogy one may expect to see back yard pat@hes of blackberry bushes and ‘perhaps there will be garden beds of dande- lions instead of lawns. Tt is in the suburbs at the -back of than this big, dangerous monkey. Who | the house and in_the side yard that fights back, makes a noise and strikes |the old fashioned family fruit tree with a pointed thing which he holds | holds its own. The suburban man and in his figgers. ~lhis wife and children still hold a “Thi tle Jap believed that the|fond feeling for the fruit free which shark’s presence was due to chance. | casts its shade near the kifchen steps He didn’t suspect at first that the and gives the family the beauty of its visitor was after him. There must|bloom in spring and its crop of fruit be some easier live victim or some |in summer and in fall. carrion in the neighborhood. hei Tt is not alone in Washington that thought. He looked about carefully, |the fruit tree which used to grow but saw nothing. And the shark.|close to the house has passed away.. halting over him, began (o turn of | Lamentation that the household fruit his belly. bringing his three rows of : teeth level with the man’s head. The | !Te® (::!nm:-p}‘-‘:: ;:e‘::g:o::w;;erl Jap stirred the bottom with his knife |3 earg in other cities. In a letter S0 as to muddy the water. and also |18 heard in ofther cltice A S JCUINT {gesticulated. The beast rose several|,, o) fashioned subscriber writes: yards and waited. s ‘He's going to stay, thought the | Who of us that has g M":-‘.".'r'. diver. ‘Ho 15 obatinates He has| ooy oo oo e e e riat Seanss chosen me for his meal today. He|[trées. in the spring, decked with ‘“‘honer isn't like the other sharks. I'd better | heavy" biossoms and in the fall laden with e B e aaas Bham” s “He gave the hoisting signal. But - in ‘the code thers was nothing to|Dlearing red fruit and vellow as large as dol o the xize of & mickle and explain why he wanted to mscend, | i, for shrumk 5 e HIu rt “erape “vinet He could only say ‘Haul me up! |bearing small but delicious grapes have passed, Above they were greatly surprised,|and lsstly, the parsing of the fig, our justly yet they obeyed. They began to raisc | famed Celeste. These trees have either ceased him, but very slowly. It has to be|{> bear. or bear frult wo wmel and BUsrLed done very slowly, stopping the move- | that they re but CERostE oF O e meas. ment for several minutes at each |ure bafore the insidious San Jose scale, the fathom or fathom and a half. For |white moth, the white fungus, etc., aided and the decompression mustn’t occur too |abetted by the Argeatine ant. rapidly. Without these precautions| It cannot be that the San Josc they would pull up a dead man. scale, white moth, white fungus and “The ferocious fish seemed to un-|Argentine ant have been wholly re- derstand. His prey was afraid and | sponsible for the disappearance of the wanted 8o flee. That encouraged |tree which bloomed and bore its ten- him. With a single stroke of his|der, luscious fruit in the Washingion tail he approached, plunging a little |back yard. It cannot be, because deep, and then coming up Wwith|Washington is the home of the Li- stomach ' against the diver's|partment of Agriculture, and it is stomach and his head level with the | hard to believe that the scale, motl diver's head. The Jap kicked with|fungus and Argentine ant would hav. the shoes with soles of lead. “‘Come hurry up! said the captain * x % % HE little Jap knew that Euro- peans are always nervous and in a hurry. Time is money, especially tute wiped his hand on his linen which to wash them. ‘Come! Hurry up? the captain re- peated. “So he let himself be incased in the machine and went down. “He hadn't been scratching tne it grew bigger and became more precise. 1t was a shark, an enormous shark. The diver was very much astonished. before. The sharks of each country have their own habits and customs. they soon became playful and affec-|his leaden shoes and stuck his knife|the ncrve to ply their infamous wa tionate. Baby elephants are just|in the animal's face. three feet high at birth and welgh|ed knife edge glanced off the wrin- about two hundred. pounds. K .They’kled skin. Neverthelesg, the shark But the round- jat the very doors of men who study their tricks and devise deadly sprays fymes to circumvent them.