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Moby Dick; or The Whale

CHAPTER 22
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Oh! the sail-needles are in the green locker! Don't whale it too much a' Lord's days, men; but don't miss a fair chance either, that's rejecting Heaven's good gifts.

Have an eye to the molasses tierce, Mr.Stubb; it was a little leaky, I thought.
If ye touch at the islands, Mr.Flask, beware of fornication.

Good-bye, good-bye! Don't keep that cheese too long down in the hold, Mr.
Starbuck; it'll spoil.

Be careful with the butter--twenty cents the pound it was, and mind ye, if--" "Come, come, Captain Bildad; stop palavering,--away!" and with that, Peleg hurried him over the side, and both dropt into the boat.
Ship and boat diverged; the cold, damp night breeze blew between; a screaming gull flew overhead; the two hulls wildly rolled; we gave three heavy-hearted cheers, and blindly plunged like fate into the lone Atlantic..


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