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go to the South Kensington Natural History 

 Museum, and look at the great shark there 

 which was taken off Shanklin, in the Isle of 

 Wight. Far more was heard about them in 

 the past than there is at present. The shark 

 is as cunning as a fox, and as ferocious as a 

 tiger ; but the great one alluded to above is 

 harmless where men are concerned, though 

 gruesome to look at. 



If you wish to hear a perfect Babel of voices 

 from the fowl, pull in a skiff just off a sand-flat, 

 when they are feeding by moonlight, about one 

 hour before the tide makes in. You will not 

 be able to see much, for if thousands shoot 

 over the flat surface, they only look like a 

 smoke-cloud rushing along. But you will have 

 something to remember. Never take a gun 

 out in the skiff with you, lest you be tempted 

 to fire towards shore, where the noise comes 

 from, and might kill some fowler stretched out 

 for a big shot, with his head only raised close 

 to the tide. Also remember, if you are out 

 for observation, to keep far enough out in your 

 skiff, or some one firing from the shore sea- 

 wards may kill, or at least seriously wound, you. 



Moonlight, the soft full radiance of the har- 

 vest moon, falls on a peaceful God's Acre on 



