A Stove Boat and Stove Body When They Will

Mapple was a sailor and harpooner in his youth, but for many years past, had dedicated his life to the ministry. He says we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water and thinking that thick water is the thinnest of air. "Take my body, who will take it? I say, it is not me," he writes. 'And therefore, three cheers for nantucket'