| I sat down on the side of the bed, and commenced thinking about this head-peddling harpooneer, and his door mat. |
| But though the other boarders kept coming in by ones, twos, and threes, and going to bed, yet no sign of my harpooneer. |
| He had been a sailor and a harpooneer in his youth, but for many years past had dedicated his life to the ministry. |
| Look ye, Quohog, we'll give ye the ninetieth lay, and that's more than ever was given a harpooneer yet out of Nantucket. |
| Lord save me, thinks I, that must be the harpooneer, the infernal head-peddler. |
| Stop your grinning, shouted I, and why didn't you tell me that that infernal harpooneer was a cannibal? |
