. The seashore book : Bob and Betty's summer with Captain Hawes . dren never wearied of Captain Hawess stories of his voyages, andthe Captain, with such good listeners, never wearied telling of them, — a perfectcombination. He told of how when a young man he used to go whaling. Of course youknow what whales are, big sea animals, you could nt call them fish, often sixtyor seventy feet long, as long as a big house, huge creatures who livedin the northern or southern seas, though once in a while a stray one hadbeen known to come into the Sound, not far from here. Now the children were really exci
. The seashore book : Bob and Betty's summer with Captain Hawes . dren never wearied of Captain Hawess stories of his voyages, andthe Captain, with such good listeners, never wearied telling of them, — a perfectcombination. He told of how when a young man he used to go whaling. Of course youknow what whales are, big sea animals, you could nt call them fish, often sixtyor seventy feet long, as long as a big house, huge creatures who livedin the northern or southern seas, though once in a while a stray one hadbeen known to come into the Sound, not far from here. Now the children were really excited. Oh, if only one should happento come this summer! The Captain said that would be just a chance; itwas hardly a thing you could count on. When the ship reached the far-away seas where whales were tobe found, lookouts were stationed aloft at the masthead to watchfor them. When one was sighted the lookout shouted, There sheblows; for the whales have a habit of blowing up spray when they cometo the surface to breathe, then the boats were lowered and away the. sailors went after the whale. When they came up with him they rowed asclose as they dared, and the harpooner in the bow of the boat hurled his har-poon into the big creatures side. The whale at once made a great commotion, slashing about and beating up thewater, then diving deep down. The sailors paid out the rope attached to theharpoon as the whale went down. Sometimes they had to cut it to keep from beingdragged under. But when this did nt happen the whale would come up after awhile and start away dragging the boat along at a terrific speed. In time hewould get tired and the boat would again be rowed near, and a lance thrust intohis side until he was quite dead. It was all exciting and dangerous work, for sometimes the whale would attackthe boat and splinter it to pieces with a blow of his tail, and the men, often badlyhurt, be thrown into the sea, and sometimes lost. The dead whale was towedoff to the ship, here he w
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