"This fire and the numbers of drowning people will draw hundreds of the finny inhabitants toward us. You know a fire at night is sure to attract fish."
"You seem determined to frighten us," said Howard, "but I shall continue to think that God who has so mercifully saved us intends to save us to the end."
"Perhaps so, too, but it does no harm to understand all the dangers to which we are subject."
"I believe with Howard," said Elwood. "I ain't afraid of sharks, but for all that, they are ugly creatures. They swim under you and the first thing you know clip goes one of your legs off, just the same as a pair of snuffers would clip off a piece of wick."
"They are the hyenas of the sea," said Howard, "although I believe some kinds are stupid and harmless. I think I have heard them called that by somebody, I don't remember who. They will snap up anything that is thrown to them."
"Wouldn't it make their eyes water to come this way then? Jis' to think of their saaing four pair of legs dancing over their hids, not to spake of the dog that could come in by way of dessart."
"O Tim! keep still, it is too dreadful!"
"Worrah! it wasn't meself that introduced the subject, but as yez have got started, I've no objection to continue the same."
"Let us try and talk about something more pleasant——"
"A shark! a shark!" suddenly screamed Elwood, springing half his length out of the water in his excitement.