What great fish is this? It is a shark. He is fast now, and the men will
soon have him up on the ship's deck, where they will make an end of him.
Sharks are ve-ry fierce. They are so large, too, that they can eat up a
man with-out a-ny trou-ble. In some parts of the world peo-ple nev-er
dare go in bath-ing, be-cause of them. You can see in the pic-ture what
great teeth they have. This fel-low has been at ma-ny a bad piece of
work, I have no doubt; but now all his pranks are at an end. He has
fol-lowed the ship mile af-ter mile to pick up a-ny scraps that were
thrown o-ver, and they have tast-ed so well, that when he saw a great
piece of pork come splash in-to the wa-ter, he swal-lowed it down
with-out stopping to think that there might be a hook in it. Then all at
once he found that he was fast. Strug-gle as hard as he could, it was of
no use; he was held fast.
[Illustration: THE SHARK.]