The Inscrutable Ahab Leaped After His Prey

Ahab made specific allusions of flask to that whale, as he called the fictitious monster which he declared to be incessantly tantalizing his boat's bow with its tail. These allusions of his were at times so vivid and lifelike that they would cause some one or two of his men to snatch fearful look over the shoulder. Oarsmen must put out their eyes and ram a skewer through their necks, usage pronouncing that they must have no organs, but ears, and no limbs but arms. But what it was that inscrutable ahab said to that tiger crew of his, these are words best omitted here, for you live under the blessed light of the evangelical