jawbones

Updated: May 21, 2025

"Stay till my laddies come in, and hear what account they have to give ye," said the kind-hearted old fisherman, making me sit down once more in the porch in front of his cottage. The roof was the bow of a small boat, which made a good shelter from the sun, and the supporting-posts the jawbones of a whale which had been stranded on the shore.

William Henry Giles Kingston - Will Weatherhelm: The Yarn of an Old Sailor