Moby Dick by Herman Melville Chapter 40 Page 4

What say ye? There comes the other watch. Stand by all legs! Pip! Little Pip! Hurrah with your tambourine!

PIP. (Sulky and sleepy.) Don’t know where it is.

FRENCH SAILOR. Beat thy belly, then, and wag thy ears. Jig it, men, I say; merry’s the word; hurrah! Damn me, won’t you dance? Form, now, Indian-file, and gallop into the double-shuffle? Throw yourselves! Legs! Legs!

ICELAND SAILOR. I don’t like your floor, maty; it’s too springy to my taste.

I’m used to ice-floors. I’m sorry to throw cold water on the subject; but excuse me.

MALTESE SAILOR. Me too; where’s your girls? Who but a fool would take his left hand by his right, and say to himself, how d’ye