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There weekly arrive in this town scores of green Vermonters and New Hampshire men, all athirst for gain and glory in the fishery.
 

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They are mostly young, of stalwart frames; fellows who have felled forests, and now seek to drop the axe and snatch the whale-lance.
 

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Many are as green as the Green Mountains whence they came.
 

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In some things you would think them but a few hours old.
 

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He wears a beaver hat and swallow-tailed coat, girdled with a sailor-belt and sheath-knife.
 

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Here comes another with a sou'-wester and a bombazine* cloack.

*Cotton fabric; the Indian city Bombay had become known for it.
 

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No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one -- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy -- a fellow that, in the dog-days, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.
 

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Now when a country dandy like this takes it into his head to make a distinguished reputation, and joins the great whale-fishery, you should see the comical things he does upon reaching the seaport.
 

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In bespeaking his sea-outfit, he orders bell-buttons to his waistcoats; straps to his canvas trowsers.
 
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