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Adventures and Letters

CHAPTER VIII
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That's the sort of country it is.

And then after you do make a dash for the surf a shark makes a dash for you and you don't know what you are here for anyway.
It had its humorous side and it was very funny, especially as it never turned out otherwise, to see the men scamper when the sharks came in.
They never scented us for ten minutes or so and then they would swim up and we would give a yell and all make for the shore head over heels and splashing and shrieking and scared and excited.

There would always be one man who was further out than the rest and he could not hear on account of the waves and we would all line up on the beach and yell and dance up and down and try to attract his attention.

But you would see him go on diving and playing along in horrible loneliness until he turned to speak to some one and found the man gone and then he would look for the others and when he saw us all on the shore he would give one wild whoop out of him and go falling over himself with his hair on end and his eyes and mouth wide open.

I saw one shark ten feet long but we would have died of the heat if we had not bathed so we thought it was worth it.


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