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CHAPTER 120. The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch.
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Ahab standing by the helm. Starbuck approaching him.
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"We must send down the main-top-sail yard, sir. The band is working loose and the lee lift is half-stranded. Shall I strike it, sir?"
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"Strike nothing; lash it. If I had sky-sail poles, I’d sway them up now."
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"Sir!—in God’s name!—sir?"
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"Well."
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"The anchors are working, sir. Shall I get them inboard?"
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"Strike nothing, and stir nothing, but lash everything. The wind rises, but it has not got up to my table-lands yet. Quick, and see to it.—By masts and keels! he takes me for the hunch-backed skipper of some coasting smack. Send down my main-top-sail yard! Ho, gluepots! Loftiest trucks were made for wildest winds, and this brain-truck of mine now sails amid the cloud-scud. Shall I strike that? Oh, none but cowards send down their brain-trucks in tempest time. What a hooroosh aloft there! I would e’en take it for sublime, did I not know that the colic is a noisy malady. Oh, take medicine, take medicine!"
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