Correspondence

Many boys would hear tales from afar believing them to be true. Sometimes the BOP could dispell these myths. Here they wryly appear to confirm an erroneous belief, but end their reply with tongue firmly in cheek.

H. LOWE. – See No. 392. The longest shark known to exist is the Rhinodon, which is seventy feet long. Your friend must be careful; sharks able to throw ships over have not yet been discovered. It is however, a fact that sharks will follow a ship on board of which there is a dead body; but then, they often follow a ship on board of which there is none.
(SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1887)