nd then, I rather guess when he finds himself docked in that queer fashion, he’ll sneak off without the poor satisfaction of feeling his tail between his legs.”</p>
<p>“And what will you do with the tail, Stubb?”</p>
<p>“Do with it? Sell it for an ox whip when we get home;—what else?”</p>
<p>“Now, do you mean what you say, and have been saying all along, Stubb?”</p>
<p>“Mean or not mean, here we are at the ship.”</p>
<p>The boats were here hailed, to tow the whale on the larboard side,