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Now, if\r\nhe’s so old as all those hoops of yours come to, and if he is going to\r\nlive for ever, what good will it do to pitch him overboard—tell me\r\nthat?\r\n\r\n“Give him a good ducking, anyhow.”\r\n\r\n“But he’d crawl back.”\r\n\r\n“Duck him again; and keep ducking him.”\r\n\r\n“Suppose he should take it into his head to duck you, though—yes, and\r\ndrown you—what then?”\r\n\r\n“I should like to see him try it; I’d give him such a pair of black\r\neyes that he wouldn’t dare to show his face in the admiral’s cabin\r\nagain for a long while, let alone down in the orlop there, where he\r\nlives, and hereabouts on the upper decks where he sneaks so much. Damn\r\nthe devil, Flask; so you suppose I’m afraid of the devil? Who’s afraid\r\nof him, except the old governor who daresn’t catch him and put him in\r\ndouble-darbies, as he deserves, but lets him go about kidnapping\r\npeople; aye, and signed a bond with him, that all the people the devil\r\nkidnapped, he’d roast for him? There’s a governor!”\r\n\r\n“Do you suppose Fedallah wants to kidnap Captain Ahab?”\r\n\r\n“Do I suppose it? You’ll know it before long, Flask. But I am going now\r\nto keep a sharp look-out on him; and if I see anything very suspicious\r\ngoing on, I’ll just take him by the nape of his neck, and say—Look\r\nhere, Beelzebub, you don’t do it; and if he makes any fuss, by the Lord\r\nI’ll make a grab into his pocket for his tail, take it to the capstan,\r\nand give him such a wrenching and heaving, that his tail will come\r\nshort off at the stump—do you see; and then, I rather guess when he\r\nfinds himself docked in that queer fashion, he’ll sneak off without the\r\npoor satisfaction of feeling his tail between his legs.”\r\n\r\n“And what will you do with the tail, Stubb?”\r\n\r\n“Do with it? Sell it for an ox whip when we get home;—what else?”\r\n\r\n“Now, do you mean what you say, and have been saying all along, Stubb?”\r\n\r\n“Mean or not mean, here we are at the ship.”\r\n\r\nThe boats were here hailed, to tow the whale on the larboard side,\r\nwhere fluke chains and other necessaries were already prepared for\r\nsecuring him.\r\n\r\n“Didn’t I tell you so?” said Flask; “yes, you’ll soon see this right\r\nwhale’s head hoisted up opposite that parmacetti’s.”\r\n\r\nIn good time, Flask’s saying proved true. As before, the Pequod steeply\r\nleaned over towards the sperm whale’s head, now, by the counterpoise of\r\nboth heads, she regained her even keel; though sorely strained, you may\r\nwell believe. So, when on one side you hoist in Locke’s head, you go\r\nover that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant’s and you come\r\nback again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep\r\ntrimming boat. Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard,\r\nand then you will float light and right.\r\n\r\nIn disposing of the body of a right whale, when brought alongside the\r\nship, the same preliminary proceedings commonly take place as in the\r\ncase of a sperm whale; only, in the latter instance, the head is cut\r\noff whole, but in the former the lips and tongue are separately removed\r\nand hoisted on deck, with all the well known black bone attached to\r\nwhat is called the crown-piece. But nothing like this, in the present\r\ncase, had been done. The carcases of both whales had dropped astern;\r\nand the head-laden ship not a little resembled a mule carrying a pair\r\nof overburdening panniers.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 4"},"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":"01KF7FPSAS47Y58F0Y8T5N8WYT","peer_label":"Chunk 5","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"},{"peer":"01KF7FPSASGAVRBZ7KTVRH2998","peer_label":"Chunk 3","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-18T02:42:20.970Z","ts":"2026-01-18T02:42:27.838Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KF7FCDA7SCSJ6A30TDPDSJQV"}}