Ahab, a Dog, Stub, Sir, and a Mule and an Ass

Captain ahab was measuring the ship from taff rail mainmast. Stubb, the old second mate, came up from below. hinted that if captain ahab was pleased to walk the planks then no one could say nay,. but there might be some way of muffling the noise. Hinting something indistinctly, unhesitatingly, about a globe of toe and the insertion into it of the ivory heel. Ahab advanced upon him with such overbearing terrors in his aspect that stubb involuntarily retreat.