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"
Now
,
as
you
well
know
,
it
is
not
seldom
the
case
in
this
conventional
world
of
ours
--
watery
or
otherwise
;
that
when
a
person
placed
in
command
over
his
fellow-men
finds
one
of
them
to
be
very
significantly
his
superior
in
general
pride
of
manhood
,
straightway
against
that
man
he
conceives
an
unconquerable
dislike
and
bitterness
;
and
if
he
had
a
chance
he
will
pull
down
and
pulverize
that
subaltern
's
tower
,
and
make
a
little
heap
of
dust
of
it
.
Be
this
conceit
of
mine
as
it
may
,
gentlemen
,
at
all
events
Steelkilt
was
a
tall
and
noble
animal
with
a
head
like
a
Roman
,
and
a
flowing
golden
beard
like
the
tasseled
housings
of
your
last
viceroy
's
snorting
charger
;
and
a
brain
,
and
a
heart
,
and
a
soul
in
him
,
gentlemen
,
which
had
made
Steelkilt
Charlemagne
,
had
he
been
born
son
to
Charlemagne
's
father
.
But
Radney
,
the
mate
,
was
ugly
as
a
mule
;
yet
as
hardy
,
as
stubborn
,
as
malicious
.
He
did
not
love
Steelkilt
,
and
Steelkilt
knew
it
.
"
Espying
the
mate
drawing
near
as
he
was
toiling
at
the
pump
with
the
rest
,
the
Lakeman
affected
not
to
notice
him
,
but
unawed
,
went
on
with
his
gay
banterings
.
"
'
Aye
,
aye
,
my
merry
lads
,
it
's
a
lively
leak
this
;
hold
a
cannikin
,
one
of
ye
,
and
let
's
have
a
taste
.
By
the
Lord
,
it
's
worth
bottling
!
I
tell
ye
what
,
men
,
old
Rad
's
investment
must
go
for
it
!
he
had
best
cut
away
his
part
of
the
hull
and
tow
it
home
.
The
fact
is
,
boys
,
that
sword-fish
only
began
the
job
;
he
's
come
back
again
with
a
gang
of
ship-carpenters
,
saw-fish
,
and
file-fish
,
and
what
not
;
and
the
whole
posse
of
'
em
are
now
hard
at
work
cutting
and
slashing
at
the
bottom
;
making
improvements
,
I
suppose
.
If
old
Rad
were
here
now
,
I
'd
tell
him
to
jump
overboard
and
scatter
They
're
playing
the
devil
with
his
estate
,
I
can
tell
him
.
But
he
's
a
simple
old
soul
--
Rad
,
and
a
beauty
too
.
Boys
,
they
say
the
rest
of
his
property
is
invested
in
looking-glasses
.
I
wonder
if
he
'd
give
a
poor
devil
like
me
the
model
of
his
nose
.
'
"
'D
amn
your
eyes
!
what
's
that
pump
stopping
for
?
'
roared
Radney
,
pretending
not
to
have
heard
the
sailors
'
talk
.
'
Thunder
away
at
it
!
'
'
Aye
,
aye
,
sir
,
'
said
Steelkilt
,
merry
as
a
cricket
.
'
Lively
,
boys
,
lively
,
now
!
'
And
with
that
the
pump
clanged
like
fifty
fire-engines
;
the
men
tossed
their
hats
off
to
it
,
and
ere
long
that
peculiar
gasping
of
the
lungs
was
heard
which
denotes
the
fullest
tension
of
life
's
utmost
energies
.
"
Quitting
the
pump
at
last
,
with
the
rest
of
his
band
,
the
Lakeman
went
forward
all
panting
,
and
sat
himself
down
on
the
windlass
;
his
face
fiery
red
,
his
eyes
bloodshot
,
and
wiping
the
profuse
sweat
from
his
brow
.
Now
what
cozening
fiend
it
was
,
gentlemen
,
that
possessed
Radney
to
meddle
with
such
a
man
in
that
corporeally
exasperated
state
,
I
know
not
;
but
so
it
happened
.
Intolerably
striding
along
the
deck
,
the
mate
commanded
him
to
get
a
broom
and
sweep
down
the
planks
,
and
also
a
shovel
,
and
remove
some
offensive
matters
consequent
upon
allowing
a
pig
to
run
at
large
.
"
Now
,
gentlemen
,
sweeping
a
ship
's
deck
at
sea
is
a
piece
of
household
work
which
in
all
times
but
raging
gales
is
regularly
attended
to
every
evening
;
it
has
been
known
to
be
done
in
the
case
of
ships
actually
foundering
at
the
time
.
Such
,
gentlemen
,
is
the
inflexibility
of
sea-usages
and
the
instinctive
love
of
neatness
in
seamen
;
some
of
whom
would
not
willingly
drown
without
first
washing
their
faces
.
But
in
all
vessels
this
broom
business
is
the
prescriptive
province
of
the
boys
,
if
boys
there
be
aboard
.
Besides
,
it
was
the
stronger
men
in
the
Town-Ho
that
had
been
divided
into
gangs
,
taking
turns
at
the
pumps
;
and
being
the
most
athletic
seaman
of
them
all
,
Steelkilt
had
been
regularly
assigned
captain
of
one
of
the
gangs
;
consequently
he
should
have
been
freed
from
any
trivial
business
not
connected
with
truly
nautical
duties
,
such
being
the
case
with
his
comrades
.
I
mention
all
these
particulars
so
that
you
may
understand
exactly
how
this
affair
stood
between
the
two
men
.
"
But
there
was
more
than
this
:
the
order
about
the
shovel
was
almost
as
plainly
meant
to
sting
and
insult
Steelkilt
,
as
though
Radney
had
spat
in
his
face
.
Any
man
who
has
gone
sailor
in
a
whale-ship
will
understand
this
;
and
all
this
and
doubtless
much
more
,
the
Lakeman
fully
comprehended
when
the
mate
uttered
his
command
.
