human
Sharks? he was saying.
gpt
Seen sharks? You bet I have! Why, when I was or'nary seaman--betwixt Noocastle, Noo South Wales and 'Frisco it was; with coals--we counted twenty-seven of 'em around the ship the morning we was becalmed in three south. And that afternoon young Billy Bunting--the darling of our crew he was--he fell overboard, and was took. Took, my lads, I say! Nothin' left on'y a patch of red in the blue water and a whole set of metal buttons when we landed Mister John Shark next morning. (Sensation.)
human
And that's gospel. But the next shark as we got--and we was becalmed three weeks that go--the skipper he strung him up to the spanker-boom, an' shot his blessed eyes out with a revolver; 'cause little Billy had been pet of the ship, d'ye see? And then we let him back into the briny; and a young devil of an apprentice dived over and swam rings round him, 'cause he couldn't see; and it was the best game o' blindman's buff ever you seed in your born days. (Merriment.)
gpt
What! Have ye never heard tell o' the shark in Corio Bay, an' what he done? Oh, but I'll spin that yarn.
human
A sailor, said Pinckney, listening in the parlour;