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...happened to me once you are sent to New Jersey to hunt a man-eating shark just go to the Amsterdam Roof Gar- den and after about four hours telephone that the shark was last seen fluking his tall well outside the three-mile limit. If you are sent to burglarize some woman's flat for pictures say that the fire escape was blocked by parked babies. You'll have to match cynicism with cynicism...
...material to the deeds of men inspired by Jack London and by the famous Traprock, skipper of the good ship, "Kawa." Only a few weeks ago a Frenchman sailed across the Atlantic in a thirty-foot sloop, inspired, as he said, by London's "Cruise of the Shark," and unconsciously perhaps by the romantic voyage of the Kawa into the South Seas. And now three more intrepid spirits, two of them graduates of the University, are planning a trip to the fever-haunted regions of the upper Amazon...
...some picturesque Marquesan hut, listening to the chatter of Exploding Eggs, the native valet, and Chief Seventh Man Who Is So Angry He Wallows in The Mud, than it would be to explore in the flesh those far-away places, to broll under the tropic sun, flee from the shark and the enraged swordlish, or suffer the stings of the "nones" in deserted Haapa, where the last dregs of the Typee race wait for death to release them. One even half-suspects that the beauty of Vanquished Often and her companions sporting on the sunny beaches of Vait...
...inexhaustible soil, are threatened with a change of our table d'hote. The Government, which is occasionally paternal, in growing anxiety that its fledglings will not be fed, has combed the deep and traditionally seven seas for new foods. In result we are advised to eat dogfish, shark, whale, and other "meats." By eating the dogfish, shark, whale and marine monsters which are neither fish nor flesh, it is expected that no one will starve...
CRICKET ELEVEN.- The following men will be at Bartlett's at 12 o'clock shark, to take the barge for Longwood: Balch, Garrett, T. S. Lee, Crowninshield, Hewes, Frost, Sullivan, Austrian, Davis and MacVeagh...