Moby Dick

[Old Thunder]

I could not help it, but I began to feel suspicious of this "dark complexioned" harpooner.

 

[Old Thunder]

At any rate, I made up my mind that if it so turned out that we should sleep together, he must undress and get into bed before I did.

 

[Old Thunder]

Supper over, the company went back to the bar-room, when, knowing not what else to do with myself, I resolved to spend the rest of the evening as a looker-on.

 

[Old Thunder]

Presently a rioting noise was heard without.

 

[Old Thunder]

Starting up, the landlord cried, "The the Grampus's crew. I seed her reported in the offing this morning; a three years' voyage, and a full ship. Hurrah, boys; now we'll have the latest news from the Feejees."

 

[Old Thunder]

A tramping of sea boots was heard in the entry; the door was flung open, and in rolled a wild set of mariners enough.

 

[Old Thunder]

Enveloped in their shaggy watch coats, and with their heads muffled in woollen comforters, all bedarned and ragged, and their beards stiff with icicles, they seemed an eruption of bears from Labrador.

 

[Old Thunder]

They had just landed from their boat, and this was the first house they entered.

 

[Old Thunder]

No wonder, then, that they made a straight wake for the whale's mouth -- the bar -- when the wrinkled little old Jonah, there officiating, soon poured them out brimmers all round.

 

[Old Thunder]

One complained of a bad cold in his head upon which Jonah mixed him a pitch-like portion of gin and molasses, which he swore was a sovereign cure for all colds and catarrhs whatsovever, never mind of how long standing, or whether caught off the coast of Labrador, or on the weather side of an ice-island.