"whales has feelins. Ju^> 



After a few minutes, there was a sudden uproar 

 in the second mate's boat. Again the excited cry, 

 " Stand up quick — give it to him ! ! Again a 

 heavy harpoon was sent a-whizzing through the 

 air, and plunging deep into that awful, water- 

 hidden something. Again the confusion in the 

 boat and the preparation for lancing. 



Responsive to the stab of this second harpoon, 

 the monster sullenly settled under water. The 

 battle was now well joined. What next ? 



Suddenly and all unexpected, the whale came 

 up again like a submarine boat. He bumped his 

 back against the blades of the first mate's oars. 

 His shiny black hump stood fully a foot out of 

 water. The men could feel the damp heat of his 

 spout. We could hear the sound of it. 



This time old Blubber had gore in his eye. He 

 was in for carnage and calamity and consternation. 

 He lifted his huge square nose ten feet into the 

 air, and dropping his long under-jaw, deliberately 

 calculated his distance. Then with a hideous 

 swing of his whole appalling mass, he veered 

 round and took that whale-boat into his mouth. 

 His ivory teeth smashed through the cedar clinker- 

 work. The boat went to pieces like an egg-shell. 

 The mate's crew flung themselves headlong into 

 the water, and escaped by the skin of their teeth. 



