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"'Fraid it is," said Derrick, with a laugh; "the worst of it is, the machinery is even dirtier than I am. 'Pon my word, I don't believe it's had a good over-haul for years." "Possibly," said Donna Elvira, absently. "The last man who had charge of it was too fond of the wine." "I can believe it," said Derrick; "anyway, he kept his machinery thirsty enough. What shall I do about it?"
It was hardly worth the labor, but Dab knew what a tempest the loss of it might bring around the ears of poor Dick. When they reached the landing, and began to over-haul their very brilliant "catch," Dabney said, "Now, Dick, take your string home, leave that basket of crabs at Mr. Foster's, and then come back with the basket, and carry the rest of 'em to our house.
There was no part of her which I did not over-haul, and I could see that they had had a great time with whales, for a mighty carcass, attached to the outside of the ship by the powerful cant-purchase tackle, had been in process of flensing and cutting-in, and on the deck two great blankets of blubber, looking each a ton-weight, surrounded by twenty-seven men in many attitudes, some terrifying to see, some disgusting, several grotesque, all so unhuman, the whale dead, and the men dead, too, and death was there, and the rank-flourishing germs of Inanity, and a mesmerism, and a silence, whose dominion was established, and its reign was growing old.
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