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chapter c 2 LEG AND ARM THE PEQUOD, OF NANTUCKET, MEETS THE SAMUEL >

ENDERBY, OF LONDON Ship, ahoy! Hast seen the White Whale? So cried Ahab,once more hailing a ship showing English colors, bearing down under thestern. Trumpet to mouth, the old man was standing in his hoistedquarter-boat, his ivory leg plainly revealed to the stranger captain, whowas carelessly reclining in his own boat's bow. He was a darkly-tanned,burly, good-natured, fine-looking man, of sixty or thereabouts, dressed ina spacious roundabout, that hung round him in festoons of blue pilot-cloth;and one empty arm of this jacket streamed behind him like the broidered arm ofa huzzar's surcoat. Hast seen the White Whale? See you this? andwithdrawing it from the fold that had hidden it, he held up a white arm ofsperm whale bone, terminating in a wooden head like a mallet. Man my boat!cried Ahab, impetuously, and tossing about the oars near him -- Stand by tolower! In less than a minute, without quitting his little craft, he andhis crew were dropped to the water, and were soon alongside of the stranger.But here a curious difficulty presented itself. In the excitement of themoment, Ahab had forgotten that since the loss of his leg he had never oncestepped on board of any vessel at sea but his own, and then it was always byan ingenious and very handy mechanical contrivance peculiar to the Pequod,and a thing not to be rigged and shipped in any other vessel at a moment'swarning. Now, it is no very easy matter for anybody --except those who arealmost hourly used to it, like whalemen --to clamber up a ship's side from aboat on the open sea; for the great swells now lift the boat high up towards

.. <p 434 >the bulwarks, and then instantaneously drop it half way down to the kelson.so, deprived of one leg, and the strange ship of course being altogetherunsupplied with the kindly invention, Ahab now found himself abjectly reducedto a clumsy landsman again; hopelessly eyeing the uncertain changeful heighthe could hardly hope to attain. It has before been hinted, perhaps, thatevery little untoward circumstance that befel him, and which indirectlysprang from his luckless mishap, almost invariably irritated or exasperatedAhab. And in the present instance, all this was heightened by the sight ofthe two officers of the strange ship, leaning over the side, by theperpendicular ladder of nailed cleets there, and swinging towards him a pairof tastefully-ornamented man-ropes; for at first they did not seem to bethinkthem that a one-legged man must be too much of a cripple to use their seabannisters. But this awkwardness only lasted a minute, because the strangecaptain, observing at a glance how affairs stood, cried out, I see, I see!--avast heaving there! Jump, boys, and swing over the cutting-tackle. Asgood luck would have it, they had had a whale alongside a day or twoprevious, and the great tackles were still aloft, and the massive curvedblubber-hook, now clean and dry, was still attached to the end. This wasquickly lowered to Ahab, who at once comprehending it all, slid his solitarythigh into the curve of the hook (it was like sitting in the fluke of ananchor, or the crotch of an apple tree), and then giving the word, heldhimself fast, and at the same time also helped to hoist his own weight, bypulling hand-over-hand upon one of the running parts of the tackle. Soon hewas carefully swung inside the high bulwarks, and gently landed upon thecapstan head. With his ivory arm frankly thrust forth in welcome, the othercaptain advanced, and Ahab, putting out his ivory leg, and crossing the ivoryarm (like two sword-fish blades) cried out in his walrus way, Aye, aye,hearty! let us shake bones together! --an arm and a leg! --an arm that nevercan shrink, d'ye see; and a leg that never can run. Where did'st thou seethe White Whale? --how long ago? The White Whale, said the Englishman,pointing his ivory.. <p 435 >


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PRACTICAL RULESFOB THEPROMOTION OF DOMESTIC HAPPINESS.

< . ,. 'ON THE MARRIED STATE.

"Why should our joys transform to pain 7 Why gentle Hymen's silken chain ,

A bond of iron prove 7'Tis strange, my friends, the charm that binds '

Millions of hands, should leave their minds ,

At such a loose from love."— Watts.The maxims and rules for the regulation of the conduct of married people, occasionally published in newspapers and magazines, are liable to very strong objections. They fre- . quently imply a highly improper degree of subordination or subservience on the part of the wife, and a correlative superiority or authority on the part of the husband, which are incompatible with that cordiality, harmony, and good feeling that ought to subsist in such a near and indissoluble connexion. Those maxims produce a tendency on the one hand, to exercise, and on the other to resist, authority—the parent of collision and warfare.

These observations apply to parties who are on the whole well-intentioned; but who, acting under erroneous views of rights and duties, fall into error from misconceptions. I have no reference to husbands, of whom, by the way, I have known some—I hope the race is nearly extinct—who treat their wives almost as if they were upper-servants, and rarely address them but in a tone approaching to that of command.

Horace, the prince of poetical philosophers, lays down an excellent rule applicable to all the social relations, and to none more appropriately than to the matrimonial state. " Let my friend," he says, " elevate a balance, and throw my sins and imperfections into one scale, and my good qualities into the other; and if the latter preponderate, let him take me to his bosom; and I shall deal with him on precisely the same terms." How wise a maxim! one of the most important secrets of social happiness. But how frequently and perniciously is it disregarded! How often do we see a single failing, and perhaps a very venial one, produce lasting discord between the nearest relatives and friends!

Let husbands and wives bear constantly in mind that as they are imperfect themselves, they ought not only to forgive, but to overlook, all the minor imperfections of their partners, and never allow one or two failings, follies, or even vices, to throw into the shade a host of good qualities, as occasionally occurs.

RULES FOR HUSBANDS.I. Always regard your wife as your equal; treat her with kindness, respect, and attention; and never address her with the appearance of an air of authority, as if she were, as some misguided husbands appear to regard their wives, a mere housekeeper.II. Never interfere in her domestic concerns, hiring servants, &c.

III. Always keep her properly supplied with money for furnishing your table in a style proportioned to your means, and for the purchase of dress, and whatever other articles she may require, suitable to her station in life.IV. Cheerfully and promptly comply with all her reasonable requests.

V. Never be so unjust as to lose your temper towards her, in consequence of indifferent cookery, or irregularity in the hours of meals, or any other mismanagement of her servants; knowing the difficulty of making many of them do their duty.

VI. If she have prudence and good sense, consult her on all great operations, involving the risk of very serious injury, in case of failure. Many a man has been rescued from ruin by the wise counsels of his wife; and many a foolish husband has most seriously injured himself and family, by the rejectionof the advice of his wife, stupidly fearing, if he followed it, he would be regarded as henpecked! A husband can never consult a counsellor more deeply interested in his welfare than his wife.

VII. If distressed or embarrassed in your circumstances, communicate your situation to her with candour, that she may bear your difficulties in mind in her expenditures. Women sometimes, believing their husbands' circumstances better than they really are, disburse money which cannot be well afforded, and which, if they knew the real situation of their husbands' affairs, they would shrink from expending.

VIII. Never on any account chide or rebuke your wife in company, should she make any mistake in history, geography, grammar, or indeed on any other subject. There are, I am persuaded, many wives of such keen feelings and high spirits, (and such wives deserve to be treated with the utmost delicacy,) that they would rather receive a severe and bitter scolding in private, than a rebuke in compa

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