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A Fish Story and a Family Mix From Boston Journal
A family tale blends sea lore and small New England oddities. An East India ship’s carpenter dies and is buried at sea, a shark swallows a ship’s boy, and a giant shark is slain. An elderly Mr Church endures four wives and mixed bones in a New England cemetery, with an inscription hinting at mishaps. The narrator, now eighty, confirms the tale as a fish story.
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Emily Church