3/33 "If ever again, on this voyage, you take a shot at a whale, I'll wring your dirty neck for you. I'll choke your eye-balls out of you." The Jew smiled in a sickly way and whined, "There ain't nothing going to happen. I don't believe that _Essex_ ever was sunk by a whale." Urged on by its mother, the dying calf made spasmodic efforts to swim that were futile and caused it to veer and wallow from side to side. |