174 NIMBOD OF THE SEA; OB, 



lump of sugar, with a spoon to stir the steaming contents. 

 One of our old salts swears that an additional tail appears' 

 on the whale for every glass of grog after the third. He 

 remembers once to have seen a whale (see Appendix A) 

 that had a perfect fog of tails, and jaws clean down to the 

 hump. 



