Janet and Trouble were waiting for Teddy, and as soon as Janet saw her brother in the boat she called out:
“Are you all right? Oh, I was so scared!”
“Pooh! There wasn’t anything to get scared about!” laughed Ted, as one of the men helped him down and out of the craft. “We got a big shark, too!” the Curlytop boy added, as he dropped down on the sand.
“Have you?” exclaimed Janet. “I want to see it!”
“Oh, they caught a shark! They caught a shark!” murmured many voices in the crowd drawn up on Sunset Beach to await the arrival of the fish boat. Men, women and children crowded about the craft, anxious for a sight of one of the monsters of the deep.
When the good fish had been taken out and sent to the icing place, the shark was dumped out on the sand. The crowd gathered close about it, and some venturesome boys even opened the mouth of the shark, to look at his rows of sharp teeth.
“How did you catch him, Teddy?” asked Janet.
“Well, course I didn’t catch him,” Teddy modestly answered. “But I saw the captain harpoon him,” and the Curlytop boy told of the capture of the big fish, while other boys and girls listened.
Then, when the other fish had been taken care of, the shark was put on the wagon and shipped to New York, for Captain Oleson had an order for a shark from a firm of leather manufacturers who made the thick skin of the big fish into pocketbooks.
Just as the crowd was moving away, down to the beach came Mr. Martin. He looked worried, but this passed away when he saw the Curlytops and Trouble.