Moby Dick by Herman Melville Chapter 81 Page 10

a hundred barreller — don’t lose him now — don’t oh, don’t!

— see that Yarman — Oh, won’t ye pull for your duff, my lads — such a sog! Such a sogger! Don’t ye love sperm? There goes three thousand dollars, men! — a bank! — a whole bank! The bank of England! — Oh, do, do, do! — What’s that Yarman about now?”

At this moment Derick was in the act of pitching his lamp-feeder at the advancing boats, and also his oil-can; perhaps with the double view of retarding his rivals’ way, and at the same time economically accelerating his own by the momentary impetus of the backward toss.

“The unmannerly Dutch dogger!” cried Stubb. “Pull now, men,