{"id":"01KG8AP4J2MN9C575AQVFHHQWW","cid":"bafkreifp7il2psamytosqqzsgi2z5o36zqm45pvglnix7jdy4e47yyy3re","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":1751,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:49:30.764Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 14","source_file":"01KG89J198KE6FY8WPVJQQRCZ6","start_line":1689,"text":"“Stop your grinning,” shouted I, “and why didn’t you tell me that that\r\ninfernal harpooneer was a cannibal?”\r\n\r\n“I thought ye know’d it;—didn’t I tell ye, he was a peddlin’ heads\r\naround town?—but turn flukes again and go to sleep. Queequeg, look\r\nhere—you sabbee me, I sabbee—you this man sleepe you—you sabbee?”\r\n\r\n“Me sabbee plenty”—grunted Queequeg, puffing away at his pipe and\r\nsitting up in bed.\r\n\r\n“You gettee in,” he added, motioning to me with his tomahawk, and\r\nthrowing the clothes to one side. He really did this in not only a\r\ncivil but a really kind and charitable way. I stood looking at him a\r\nmoment. For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely\r\nlooking cannibal. What’s all this fuss I have been making about,\r\nthought I to myself—the man’s a human being just as I am: he has just\r\nas much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep\r\nwith a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.\r\n\r\n“Landlord,” said I, “tell him to stash his tomahawk there, or pipe, or\r\nwhatever you call it; tell him to stop smoking, in short, and I will\r\nturn in with him. But I don’t fancy having a man smoking in bed with\r\nme. It’s dangerous. Besides, I ain’t insured.”\r\n\r\nThis being told to Queequeg, he at once complied, and again politely\r\nmotioned me to get into bed—rolling over to one side as much as to\r\nsay—“I won’t touch a leg of ye.”\r\n\r\n“Good night, landlord,” said I, “you may go.”\r\n\r\nI turned in, and never slept better in my life.\r\n\r\n\r\nCHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.\r\n\r\nUpon waking next morning about daylight, I found Queequeg’s arm thrown\r\nover me in the most loving and affectionate manner. You had almost\r\nthought I had been his wife. The counterpane was of patchwork, full of\r\nodd little parti-coloured squares and triangles; and this arm of his\r\ntattooed all over with an interminable Cretan labyrinth of a figure, no\r\ntwo parts of which were of one precise shade—owing I suppose to his\r\nkeeping his arm at sea unmethodically in sun and shade, his shirt\r\nsleeves irregularly rolled up at various times—this same arm of his, I\r\nsay, looked for all the world like a strip of that same patchwork\r\nquilt. Indeed, partly lying on it as the arm did when I first awoke, I\r\ncould hardly tell it from the quilt, they so blended their hues\r\ntogether; and it was only by the sense of weight and pressure that I\r\ncould tell that Queequeg was hugging me.\r\n\r\nMy sensations were strange. Let me try to explain them. When I was a\r\nchild, I well remember a somewhat similar circumstance that befell me;\r\nwhether it was a reality or a dream, I never could entirely settle. The\r\ncircumstance was this. I had been cutting up some caper or other—I\r\nthink it was trying to crawl up the chimney, as I had seen a little\r\nsweep do a few days previous; and my stepmother who, somehow or other,\r\nwas all the time whipping me, or sending me to bed supperless,—my\r\nmother dragged me by the legs out of the chimney and packed me off to\r\nbed, though it was only two o’clock in the afternoon of the 21st June,\r\nthe longest day in the year in our hemisphere. I felt dreadfully. But\r\nthere was no help for it, so up stairs I went to my little room in the\r\nthird floor, undressed myself as slowly as possible so as to kill time,\r\nand with a bitter sigh got between the sheets.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 14"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AK7FP6P1V67V3ATJHHZ83","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J198KE6FY8WPVJQQRCZ6","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AP3VEEXD9ZNSP84A3HWTN","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AP4J59TMKQ0XZJCPB1Q21","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:49:32.738Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:49:39.769Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}