Word: manidou
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...comes by his wicked ways naturally, since Daddy Ti-Coyo and Grandfather Cocoyo are born thieves who have come up in their island world by means that normally lead to the guillotine. Now respectable, they live on a prosperous seaside plantation. Their chief idiosyncracy is that they keep Manidou, a huge pet shark, in a specially built tank that has an outlet...
Guinéo the boy and Manidou the shark are pals. They take off daily for long ocean spins, the boy riding easily by keeping tight hold of the shark's lateral fin. Guinéo likes to feed his voracious playmate, especially with human tidbits. By pretending to be helpless far offshore, he sometimes attracts a rescuing fisherman, whose extended arms are nipped off by the waiting shark. When the fisherman pitches into the water, Manidou gets the rest of him. Guinéo, who hates to study, gets rid of his tutor by taking...
...Coyo catches a baby shark and raises it in a pond. Thanks to the fish Ti-Coyo provides, the shark grows up grateful. Then Ti-Coyo goes after the competition. When a liner full of rich Yankees reaches port, Ti-Coyo and his domesticated shark, Manidou, are waiting. The coins fall, the Negroes dive, Manidou darts out and snaps a diver in two. Ti-Coyo slips into the water, scoops up the coins. The shark looks on benevolently...
...Coyo has a monopoly. Ti-Coyo remains singularly untroubled by moral scruples. With the money he makes, his family builds a new house with a tiled roof and Venetian blinds. Finally, when the great volcano of Mount Pelee erupts and leaves St. Pierre a cemetery of cinders,* Manidou saves Ti-Coyo and his family by guiding them to a safe shore. Love has repaid love...
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