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Moby Dick; Or, The Whale - Melville, Herman ยท 68 words
It was the middle watch. a fair moonlight; the seamen were standing in a cordon, extending from one of the fresh water butts in the waist, to the scuttle butt near the taffrail. In this manner, they passed the buckets to fill the scuttle butt. Standing, for the most part, on the hallowed precincts of the quarter deck, they were careful not to speak or rustle their feet.
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