18 GUN, ROD, AND SADDLE. 



SHAEKS JUMPING AT FOOD. 



IN " Land and Water," a correspondent who has 

 been yachting during the summer, mentions the 

 circumstance of a leg of mutton being lost which 

 was hung over the side, and two blue sharks after- 

 ward making their appearance ; doubtless they 

 were there before the meat disappeared, and had an 

 active part in its disappearance. When cruising in 

 the fore-and-aft schooner " Sunny South," on the Mos- 

 quito Coast, a few years since, the steward hung a 

 roast of beef from one of the stern windows, and to 

 his annoyance it was non est in the morning. The 

 weather at the time was very calm, and it was con- 

 sequently supposed that some forecastle hands had 

 got down in the rudder chains and appropriated it, 

 although how it was to be cooked without discovery 

 was difficult to know. However, a second piece was 

 about being hung out, which doubtless was to be 

 well watched, when, as the piece of line was about to 

 be made fast, a violent pull was felt, and on the 



