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It
was
but
some
few
days
after
encountering
the
Frenchman
,
that
a
most
significant
event
befell
the
most
insignificant
of
the
Pequod
's
crew
;
an
event
most
lamentable
;
and
which
ended
in
providing
the
sometimes
madly
merry
and
predestinated
craft
with
a
living
and
ever
accompanying
prophecy
of
whatever
shattered
sequel
might
prove
her
own
.
Now
,
in
the
whale
ship
,
it
is
not
every
one
that
goes
in
the
boats
.
Some
few
hands
are
reserved
called
shipkeepers
,
whose
province
it
is
to
work
the
vessel
while
the
boats
are
pursuing
the
whale
.
As
a
general
thing
,
these
shipkeepers
are
as
hardy
fellows
as
the
men
comprising
the
boats
'
crews
.
But
if
there
happen
to
be
an
unduly
slender
,
clumsy
,
or
timorous
wight
in
the
ship
,
that
wight
is
certain
to
be
made
a
ship-keeper
.
It
was
so
in
the
Pequod
with
the
little
negro
Pippin
by
nick-name
,
Pip
by
abbreviation
.
Poor
Pip
!
ye
have
heard
of
him
before
;
ye
must
remember
his
tambourine
on
that
dramatic
midnight
,
so
gloomy-jolly
.
In
outer
aspect
,
Pip
and
Dough-Boy
made
a
match
,
like
a
black
pony
and
a
white
one
,
of
equal
developments
,
though
of
dissimilar
color
,
driven
in
one
eccentric
span
.
But
while
hapless
Dough-Boy
was
by
nature
dull
and
torpid
in
his
intellects
,
Pip
,
though
over
tender-hearted
,
was
at
bottom
very
bright
,
with
that
pleasant
,
genial
,
jolly
brightness
peculiar
to
his
tribe
;
a
tribe
,
which
ever
enjoy
all
holidays
and
festivities
with
finer
,
freer
relish
than
any
other
race
.
For
blacks
,
the
year
's
calendar
should
show
naught
but
three
hundred
and
sixty-five
Fourth
of
Julys
and
New
Year
's
Days
.
Nor
smile
so
,
while
I
write
that
this
little
black
was
brilliant
,
for
even
blackness
has
its
brilliancy
;
behold
yon
lustrous
ebony
,
panelled
in
king
's
cabinets
.
But
Pip
loved
life
,
and
all
life
's
peaceable
securities
;
so
that
the
panic-striking
business
in
which
he
had
somehow
unaccountably
become
entrapped
,
had
most
sadly
blurred
his
brightness
;
though
,
as
ere
long
will
be
seen
,
what
was
thus
temporarily
subdued
in
him
,
in
the
end
was
destined
to
be
luridly
illumined
by
strange
wild
fires
,
that
fictitiously
showed
him
off
to
ten
times
the
natural
lustre
with
which
in
his
native
Tolland
County
in
Connecticut
,
he
had
once
enlivened
many
a
fiddler
's
frolic
on
the
green
;
and
at
melodious
even-tide
,
with
his
gay
ha-ha
!
had
turned
the
round
horizon
into
one
star-belled
tambourine
.
So
,
though
in
the
clear
air
of
day
,
suspended
against
a
blue-veined
neck
,
the
pure-watered
diamond
drop
will
healthful
glow
;
yet
,
when
the
cunning
jeweller
would
show
you
the
diamond
in
its
most
impressive
lustre
,
he
lays
it
against
a
gloomy
ground
,
and
then
lights
it
up
,
not
by
the
sun
,
but
by
some
unnatural
gases
.
Then
come
out
those
fiery
effulgences
,
infernally
superb
;
then
the
evil-blazing
diamond
,
once
the
divinest
symbol
of
the
crystal
skies
,
looks
like
some
crown-jewel
stolen
from
the
King
of
Hell
.
But
let
us
to
the
story
.
It
came
to
pass
,
that
in
the
ambergris
affair
Stubb
's
after-oarsman
chanced
so
to
sprain
his
hand
,
as
for
a
time
to
become
quite
maimed
;
and
,
temporarily
,
Pip
was
put
into
his
place
.
The
first
time
Stubb
lowered
with
him
,
Pip
evinced
much
nervousness
;
but
happily
,
for
that
time
,
escaped
close
contact
with
the
whale
;
and
therefore
came
off
not
altogether
discreditably
;
though
Stubb
observing
him
,
took
care
,
afterwards
,
to
exhort
him
to
cherish
his
courageousness
to
the
utmost
,
for
he
might
often
find
it
needful
.
Now
upon
the
second
lowering
,
the
boat
paddled
upon
the
whale
;
and
as
the
fish
received
the
darted
iron
,
it
gave
its
customary
rap
,
which
happened
,
in
this
instance
,
to
be
right
under
poor
Pip
's
seat
.
The
involuntary
consternation
of
the
moment
caused
him
to
leap
,
paddle
in
hand
,
out
of
the
boat
;
and
in
such
a
way
,
that
part
of
the
slack
whale
line
coming
against
his
chest
,
he
breasted
it
overboard
with
him
,
so
as
to
become
entangled
in
it
,
when
at
last
plumping
into
the
water
.
That
instant
the
stricken
whale
started
on
a
fierce
run
,
the
line
swiftly
straightened
;
and
presto
!
poor
Pip
came
all
foaming
up
to
the
chocks
of
the
boat
,
remorselessly
dragged
there
by
the
line
,
which
had
taken
several
turns
around
his
chest
and
neck
.
Tashtego
stood
in
the
bows
.
He
was
full
of
the
fire
of
the
hunt
.
He
hated
Pip
for
a
poltroon
.
Snatching
the
boat-knife
from
its
sheath
,
he
suspended
its
sharp
edge
over
the
line
,
and
turning
towards
Stubb
,
exclaimed
interrogatively
,
"
Cut
?
"
Meantime
Pip
's
blue
,
choked
face
plainly
looked
,
Do
,
for
God
's
sake
!
All
passed
in
a
flash
.
In
less
than
half
a
minute
,
this
entire
thing
happened
.
"
Damn
him
,
cut
!
"
roared
Stubb
;
and
so
the
whale
was
lost
and
Pip
was
saved
.
So
soon
as
he
recovered
himself
,
the
poor
little
negro
was
assailed
by
yells
and
execrations
from
the
crew
.
Tranquilly
permitting
these
irregular
cursings
to
evaporate
,
Stubb
then
in
a
plain
,
business-like
,
but
still
half
humorous
manner
,
cursed
Pip
officially
;
and
that
done
,
unofficially
gave
him
much
wholesome
advice
.
The
substance
was
,
Never
jump
from
a
boat
,
Pip
,
except
--
but
all
the
rest
was
indefinite
,
as
the
soundest
advice
ever
is
.
Now
,
in
general
,
Stick
to
the
boat
,
is
your
true
motto
in
whaling
;
but
cases
will
sometimes
happen
when
Leap
from
the
boat
,
is
still
better
.
Moreover
,
as
if
perceiving
at
last
that
if
he
should
give
undiluted
conscientious
advice
to
Pip
,
he
would
be
leaving
him
too
wide
a
margin
to
jump
in
for
the
future
;
Stubb
suddenly
dropped
all
advice
,
and
concluded
with
a
peremptory
command
"
Stick
to
the
boat
,
Pip
,
or
by
the
Lord
,
I
wo
n't
pick
you
up
if
you
jump
;
mind
that
.
We
ca
n't
afford
to
lose
whales
by
the
likes
of
you
;
a
whale
would
sell
for
thirty
times
what
you
would
,
Pip
,
in
Alabama
.
Bear
that
in
mind
,
and
do
n't
jump
any
more
.
"
Hereby
perhaps
Stubb
indirectly
hinted
,
that
though
man
loved
his
fellow
,
yet
man
is
a
money-making
animal
,
which
propensity
too
often
interferes
with
his
benevolence
.
