Its body was brown, and it looked as if it had horny balls round its neck; and its head, you know, was like a human being's." "I never heard tell of a fish like that, Caius.

Was it a porpoise ?" "Well, I suppose I know what a porpoise is like." "About how large was it ?" said the elder man, abandoning the porpoise theory.
"I should think about five or six feet long." "As long as that?
Did it look as if it could do any harm ?" "No; I should think it was harmless; but, father, I tell you its head looked like a person's head." "Was it a shark with a man stuck in its throat ?" "N--n--no." Not liking to deny this ingenious suggestion too promptly, he feigned to consider it.

"It wasn't a dead man's head; it was like a live woman's head." "I never heard of sharks coming near shore here, any way," added the old man.

"What distance was it off--half a mile ?" "It came between me and the little island off which we lost baby Day.

It lay half-way between the island and the shore." The old man was not one to waste words.