Carpentry and the Carpenter

The carpenter's vice bench was a long, rude, ponderous table furnished with several vices of different sizes and both of iron and of wood. At all times, except when whales were alongside, this ch was securely lashed athwart ships. Stubb longed for vermilion stars to be painted upon the blade of his every oar. A lost land bird of strange plumage strays on board and is made a captive out of clean, shaved rods of right whalebone and cross eams of sperm whale ivory. An oarsman sprains his wrist. The carpenter concocts a soothing lotion. Another has the toothache. In all teeth he acounted