game! I say; game, game, game! But base little Pip, he died a coward; died all a’shiver; — out upon Pip!

Hark ye; if ye find Pip, tell all the Antilles he’s a runaway; a coward, a coward, a coward! Tell them he jumped from a whale-boat! I’d never beat my tambourine over base Pip, and hail him General, if he were once more dying here. No, no! Shame upon all cowards — shame upon them! Let ’em go drown like Pip, that jumped from a whale-boat. Shame! Shame!”

During all this, Queequeg lay with closed eyes, as if in a dream.

Pip was led away, and the sick man was replaced in his hammock.

But now that he had apparently made every preparation for death; now that his coffin was proved a good fit, Queequeg suddenly rallied; soon there seemed no need of the carpenter’s