The Common Porpoise

The porpoise is the smallest of the whales. He has a lovely tail and sentimental indian eyes of a hazel hue, but his mealy mouth spoils all though. His entire back, down to his side fins, is of a deep sable yet a boundary line distinct as the mark in a ship's hull called the bright waist. That line streaks him from stem to stern with two separate colours, black above and white below. Beyond the duodecimo, the system does not proceed. Above you have all the leviathans of note. But there are a rabble of uncertain, fugitive, half fabulous whales which, as an american whaleman,