What Is Gamming?

All merchant seamen and all pirates cherish such a scornful feeling towards whale ships. For they are infernal villains on both sides, and don't like to see overmuch of each other's villainous likenesses. What does the whaler do when she meets another whaler in any sort of decent weather? She has a gama thing so utterly unknown to all other ships that they never heard of it even. But what is a game? You might wear out your index finger running up and down the columns of dictionaries and never find the word. Doctor johnson never attained to that erudition. Noah webster's ark does not hold it. Nevertheless, this same expressive