Moby Dick

[Old Thunder]

Wild he was; a very sight of sights to see; yet I began to feel myself mysteriously drawn towards him.

 

[Old Thunder]

And those same things that would have repelled most others, they were the very magnets that thus drew me.

 

[Old Thunder]

I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

 

[Old Thunder]

I drew my bench near him, and made some friendly signs and hints, doing my best to talk with him meanwhile.

 

[Old Thunder]

At first he little noticed these advances; but presently, upon my referring to his last night's hospitalities, he made out to ask me whether we were again to be bedfellows.

 

[Old Thunder]

I told him yes; whereat I thought he looked pleased, perhaps a little complimented.

 

[Old Thunder]

We then turned over the book together, and I endeavoured to explain to him the purpose of the printing, and the meaning of the few pictures that were in it.

 

[Old Thunder]

Thus I soon engaged his interest; and from that we went to jabbering the best we could about the various outer sights to be seen in this famous town.

 

[Old Thunder]

Soon I proposed a social smoke; and, producing his pouch and tomahawk, he quietly offered me a puff.

 

[Old Thunder]

And then we sat exchanging puffs from that wild pipe of his, and keeping it regularly passing between us.