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like to participate in their employment. But there 

 is no such work aboard ship, some one says. I know 

 better ; and so does any other sailor who ever was in 

 a ship where pigs were kept, or where the captain 

 had a dog. Yes ! he knows it, for he has had a 

 thorough acquaintance with such duty ; and so will 

 any one else who is foolish enough to go to sea before 

 the mast, as a green hand. 



Now I think I have presented the subject in its 

 true light, and I will conclude by advising all young 

 men who can gain a livelihood ashore, to stay at 

 home. I have been through the mill, and am satisfied 

 to remain ; and in reviewing my whole stock of sea 

 adventures and incidents, I must say the most pleasant 

 of all is getting home safe, with a chest full of 

 curiosities, displaying them to appreciating friends, 

 and spinning yarns descriptive of them. Trusting 

 that all my readers may arrive as safe at their 

 journej^'s end, whether in a voyage to sea or in the 

 voj^age of life, I will bid them adieu ; also hoping 

 that, in the perusal of this book, they have whiled 

 away their hours pleasantly, and gleaned some little 

 information concerning the whale and his pursuers. 



THE END. 



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