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What
was
America
in
1492
but
a
Loose-Fish
,
in
which
Columbus
struck
the
Spanish
standard
by
way
of
wailing
it
for
his
royal
master
and
mistress
?
What
was
Poland
to
the
Czar
?
What
Greece
to
the
Turk
?
What
India
to
England
?
What
at
last
will
Mexico
be
to
the
United
States
?
All
Loose-Fish
What
are
the
Rights
of
Man
and
the
Liberties
of
the
World
but
Loose-Fish
?
What
all
men
's
minds
and
opinions
but
Loose-Fish
?
What
is
the
principle
of
religious
belief
in
them
but
a
Loose-Fish
?
What
to
the
ostentatious
smuggling
verbalists
are
the
thoughts
of
thinkers
but
Loose-Fish
?
What
is
the
great
globe
itself
but
a
Loose-Fish
?
And
what
are
you
,
reader
,
but
a
Loose-Fish
and
a
Fast-Fish
,
too
?
"
De
balena
vero
sufficit
,
si
rex
habeat
caput
,
et
regina
caudam
.
"
BRACTON
,
L.
3
,
C.
3
.
Latin
from
the
books
of
the
Laws
of
England
,
which
taken
along
with
the
context
,
means
,
that
of
all
whales
captured
by
anybody
on
the
coast
of
that
land
,
the
King
,
as
Honorary
Grand
Harpooneer
,
must
have
the
head
,
and
the
Queen
be
respectfully
presented
with
the
tail
.
A
division
which
,
in
the
whale
,
is
much
like
halving
an
apple
;
there
is
no
intermediate
remainder
.
Now
as
this
law
,
under
a
modified
form
,
is
to
this
day
in
force
in
England
;
and
as
it
offers
in
various
respects
a
strange
anomaly
touching
the
general
law
of
Fast
--
and
Loose-Fish
,
it
is
here
treated
of
in
a
separate
chapter
,
on
the
same
courteous
principle
that
prompts
the
English
railways
to
be
at
the
expense
of
a
separate
car
,
specially
reserved
for
the
accommodation
of
royalty
.
In
the
first
place
,
in
curious
proof
of
the
fact
that
the
above-mentioned
law
is
still
in
force
,
I
proceed
to
lay
before
you
a
circumstance-that
happened
within
the
last
two
years
.
It
seems
that
some
honest
mariners
of
Dover
,
or
Sandwich
,
or
some
one
of
the
Cinque
Ports
,
had
after
a
hard
chase
succeeded
in
killing
and
beaching
a
fine
whale
which
they
had
originally
descried
afar
off
from
the
shore
.
Now
the
Cinque
Ports
are
partially
or
somehow
under
the
jurisdiction
of
a
sort
of
policeman
or
beadle
,
called
a
Lord
Warden
.
Holding
the
office
directly
from
the
crown
,
I
believe
,
all
the
royal
emoluments
incident
to
the
Cinque
Port
territories
become
by
assignment
his
.
By
some
writers
this
office
is
called
a
sinecure
.
But
not
so
.
Because
the
Lord
Warden
is
busily
employed
at
times
in
fobbing
his
perquisites
;
which
are
his
chiefly
by
virtue
of
that
same
fobbing
of
them
.
Now
when
these
poor
sun-burnt
mariners
,
bare-footed
,
and
with
their
trowsers
rolled
high
up
on
their
eely
legs
,
had
wearily
hauled
their
fat
fish
high
and
dry
,
promising
themselves
a
good
L150
from
the
precious
oil
and
bone
;
and
in
fantasy
sipping
rare
tea
with
their
wives
,
and
good
ale
with
their
cronies
,
upon
the
strength
of
their
respective
shares
;
up
steps
a
very
learned
and
most
Christian
and
charitable
gentleman
,
with
a
copy
of
Blackstone
under
his
arm
;
and
laying
it
upon
the
whale
's
head
,
he
says
--
"
Hands
off
!
this
fish
,
my
masters
,
is
a
Fast-Fish
.
I
seize
it
as
the
Lord
Warden
's
.
"
Upon
this
the
poor
mariners
in
their
respectful
consternation
--
so
truly
English
--
knowing
not
what
to
say
,
fall
to
vigorously
scratching
their
heads
all
round
;
meanwhile
ruefully
glancing
from
the
whale
to
the
stranger
.
But
that
did
in
nowise
mend
the
matter
,
or
at
all
soften
the
hard
heart
of
the
learned
gentleman
with
the
copy
of
Blackstone
.
At
length
one
of
them
,
after
long
scratching
about
for
his
ideas
,
made
bold
to
speak
,
"
Please
,
sir
,
who
is
the
Lord
Warden
?
"
"
The
Duke
.
"
