Many a night on watch I put my face in my hands and sobbed for thinkin' of the little woman left among the land-sharks, an' no man to have an eye on her, God bless her!" Here Kitty softly drew her chair nearer to Sailor Ben, and rested one hand on his arm.
"Our adventures among the whales, I take it, doesn't consarn the present company here assembled.

So I give that the go by.

There's an end to everythin', even to a whalin' viage.

My heart all but choked me the day we put into New Bedford with our cargo of ile.

I got my three years' pay in a lump, an' made for New York like a flash of lightnin'.