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she beat against a head sea ; and again it pushed her before it ; yet all 
the while, her masts and yards were thickly clustered with men, as 
three tall cherry trees, when the boys are cherrying among the boughs. 
But by her still halting course and winding, woful way, you plainly 
saw that this ship that so wept with spray, still remained without com- 
fort. She was Rachel, weeping for her children, because they were 
not. 
CHAPTER CXXVIII 
THE CABItf 
( Ahab moving to go on deck; Pip catches him by the hand to follow.) 
“Lad, lad, I tell thee thou must not follow Ahab now. The hour 
is coming when Ahab would not scare thee from him, yet would not have 
thee by him. There is that in thee, poor lad, which I feel too curing 
to my malady. Like cures like ; and for this hunt, my malady becomes 
my most desired health. Do thou abide below here, where they shall 
serve thee, as if thou wert the captain. Aye, lad, thou shalt sit here in 
my own screwed chair; another screw to it, thou must be.” 
“Ho, no, no ! ye have not a whole body, sir ; do ye but use poor me 
for your one lost leg; only tread upon me, sir; I ask no more, so I 
remain a part of ye.” 
“Oh ! spite of million villains, this makes me a bigot in the fadeless 
fidelity of man! — and a black! and crazy! — but methinks like cures 
like applies to him too ; he grows so sane again.” 
“They tell me, sir, that Stubb did once desert poor little Pip, whose 
drowned bones now show white, for all the blackness of his living skin. 
But I will never desert ye* sir, as Stubb did him. Sir, I must go with 
ye.” 
“If thou speakest thus to me much more, Ahab’s purpose keels up 
in him. I tell thee no ; it cannot be.” 
“Oh, good master, master, master !” 
“Weep so, and I will murder thee ! have a care, for Ahab too is mad. 
Listen, and thou wilt often hear my ivory foot upon the deck and still 
know that I am here. And now I quit thee. Thy hand — Met! 
True art thou, lad, as the circumference to its centre. So: God for 
