
Moby Dick - Chapters 72 and 73
Phoebe Reads a Mystery
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Queequeg's Monkey Rope
Queequeg was my own inseparable twin brother. Nor could i anyway get rid of the dangerous liabilities which the hempen bond entailed. The monkey rope is found in all whalers, but it was only in the pequ that the monkey and his holder were ever tied together. This improvement upon the original usage was introduced by no less a man than stubb to afford the imperilled harpooner the strongest possible guarantee for the faithfulness and vigilance of his monkey rope holder. But handle queequeg's monkey rope heedfully as i would, sometimes he jerked it so that i came very near sliding overboard.
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