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I never look at him at all; but if ever I get a chance of a\r\ndark night, and he standing hard by the bulwarks, and no one by; look\r\ndown there, Flask”—pointing into the sea with a peculiar motion of both\r\nhands—“Aye, will I! Flask, I take that Fedallah to be the devil in\r\ndisguise. Do you believe that cock and bull story about his having been\r\nstowed away on board ship? He’s the devil, I say. The reason why you\r\ndon’t see his tail, is because he tucks it up out of sight; he carries\r\nit coiled away in his pocket, I guess. Blast him! now that I think of\r\nit, he’s always wanting oakum to stuff into the toes of his boots.”\r\n\r\n“He sleeps in his boots, don’t he? He hasn’t got any hammock; but I’ve\r\nseen him lay of nights in a coil of rigging.”\r\n\r\n“No doubt, and it’s because of his cursed tail; he coils it down, do ye\r\nsee, in the eye of the rigging.”\r\n\r\n“What’s the old man have so much to do with him for?”\r\n\r\n“Striking up a swap or a bargain, I suppose.”\r\n\r\n“Bargain?—about what?”\r\n\r\n“Why, do ye see, the old man is hard bent after that White Whale, and\r\nthe devil there is trying to come round him, and get him to swap away\r\nhis silver watch, or his soul, or something of that sort, and then\r\nhe’ll surrender Moby Dick.”\r\n\r\n“Pooh! Stubb, you are skylarking; how can Fedallah do that?”\r\n\r\n“I don’t know, Flask, but the devil is a curious chap, and a wicked\r\none, I tell ye. Why, they say as how he went a sauntering into the old\r\nflag-ship once, switching his tail about devilish easy and\r\ngentlemanlike, and inquiring if the old governor was at home. Well, he\r\nwas at home, and asked the devil what he wanted. The devil, switching\r\nhis hoofs, up and says, ‘I want John.’ ‘What for?’ says the old\r\ngovernor. ‘What business is that of yours,’ says the devil, getting\r\nmad,—‘I want to use him.’ ‘Take him,’ says the governor—and by the\r\nLord, Flask, if the devil didn’t give John the Asiatic cholera before\r\nhe got through with him, I’ll eat this whale in one mouthful. But look\r\nsharp—ain’t you all ready there? Well, then, pull ahead, and let’s get\r\nthe whale alongside.”\r\n\r\n“I think I remember some such story as you were telling,” said Flask,\r\nwhen at last the two boats were slowly advancing with their burden\r\ntowards the ship, “but I can’t remember where.”\r\n\r\n“Three Spaniards? Adventures of those three bloody-minded soldadoes?\r\nDid ye read it there, Flask? I guess ye did?”\r\n\r\n“No: never saw such a book; heard of it, though. But now, tell me,\r\nStubb, do you suppose that that devil you was speaking of just now, was\r\nthe same you say is now on board the Pequod?”\r\n\r\n“Am I the same man that helped kill this whale? Doesn’t the devil live\r\nfor ever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any\r\nparson a wearing mourning for the devil? And if the devil has a\r\nlatch-key to get into the admiral’s cabin, don’t you suppose he can\r\ncrawl into a porthole? Tell me that, Mr. Flask?”\r\n\r\n“How old do you suppose Fedallah is, Stubb?”\r\n\r\n“Do you see that mainmast there?” pointing to the ship; “well, that’s\r\nthe figure one; now take all the hoops in the Pequod’s hold, and string\r\nalong in a row with that mast, for oughts, do you see; well, that\r\nwouldn’t begin to be Fedallah’s age. Nor all the coopers in creation\r\ncouldn’t show hoops enough to make oughts enough.”\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 3"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KF7FPMKDJ387WF3TVYYV8JVB","peer_label":"Stubb and Flask kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk over Him.","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KF7FPMKDJ387WF3TVYYV8JVB","peer_label":"Stubb and Flask kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk over Him.","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"partOf"},{"peer":"01KF7FPKDT5SHSH1ZQV6ABHQCA","peer_label":"Moby Dick; Or, The Whale","peer_type":"book","predicate":"partOf"},{"peer":"01KESYJX0Z6XE0HWTS5N3SDG0B","peer_label":"The Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KF7FPSBD8X382PA207BKHEPM","peer_label":"Chunk 4","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"},{"peer":"01KF7FPSCXAGPYGKR3T4QGC5HF","peer_label":"Chunk 2","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-18T02:42:20.753Z","ts":"2026-01-18T02:42:27.670Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KF7FCDA7SCSJ6A30TDPDSJQV"}}