Moby Dick

[Old Thunder]

And so saying the lighted tomahawk began flourishing about me in the dark.

 

[Old Thunder]

"Landlord, for God's sake, Peter Coffin!" shouted I.

 

[Old Thunder]

"Landlord! Watch! Coffin! Angels! save me!"

 

[Old Thunder]

"Speak-e! tell-ee me who-ee be, or dam-me, I kill-e!" again growled the cannibal, while his horrid flourishings of the tomahawk scattered the hot tobacco ashes about me till I thought my linen would get on fire.

 

[Old Thunder]

But thank heaven, at that moment the landlord came into the room light in hand, and leaping from the bed I ran up to him.

 

[Old Thunder]

"Don't be afraid now," said he, grinning again.

 

[Old Thunder]

"Queequeg here wouldn't harm a hair of your head."

 

[Old Thunder]

"Stop your grinning," said I, "and why didn't you tell me that that infernal harpooner was a cannibal?"

 

[Old Thunder]

"I thought ye knew'd it; -- didn't I tell ye, he was a peddlin' heads around town? -- but turn flukes again and go to sleep. Queequeg, look here -- you sabbee me, I sabbee you -- this man sleepe you -- you sabbee?"

 

[Old Thunder]

"Me sabbee plenty" -- grunted Queequeg, puffing away at his pipe and sitting up in bed.