Moby Dick by Herman Melville Chapter 108 Page 7

Sir? — Clay? clay, sir? That’s mud; we leave clay to ditchers, sir.

The fellow’s impious! What art thou sneezing about?

Bone is rather dusty, sir.

Take the hint, then; and when thou art dead, never bury thyself under living people’s noses.

Sir? — oh! Ah! — I guess so; — yes — oh, dear!

Look ye, carpenter, I dare say thou callest thyself a right good workmanlike workman, eh?

Well, then, will it speak thoroughly well for thy work, if, when I come to mount this leg thou makest, I shall nevertheless feel another leg in the same identical place with it; that is, carpenter, my old lost leg; the flesh and