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Moby Dick; Or, The Whale - Melville, Herman ยท 61 words
Avast there, avast there, Bildad, avast now spoiling our harpooneer, cried Peleg. Pious harpooneers never make good voyagers it takes the shark out of em; no harpooneer is worth a straw who aint pretty sharkish. There was young Nat Swaine, once the bravest boat header out of all Nantucket and the Vineyard; he joined the meeting, and never came to good.
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