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There stood Sterry preparing [[underlined]] to pucker. [[/underlined]]  Sterry puckered!  A sweet whistle, like the music of a Horse-laugh - at length stole out upon the cod fishing waters of Newfoundland Banks.  [[underlined]] Sterry was, really whistling for Porpoises!! [[/underlined]]  Porpoise after Porpoise darted along & make the [[?Bow]]-spit.  Smith - the [[underlined]] genial [[/underlined]] Smith often poised his harpoon, but quite as often [[underlined]] un- [[/underlined]] poised it  Poor [[underlined]] John [[/underlined]] Smith at length hung both [[strikethrough]] his [[strikethrough]] head & harpoon - the former on his shoulders - [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] his [[underlined]] harp- [[/underlined]] oon on a Willow, or [[strikethrough]] beautifully [[/strikethrough]] on the Martingale where for aught [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] I know it may hang there still.

The [[underlined]] (Miss-US) Porpoises [[/underlined]] had indignantly retired, having I have not the least doubt, taken offence, either at Sterry's pucker, [[strikethrough]] [[?R]] [[/strikethrough]] or his Whistling - [[underlined]] or his Morals! [[/underlined]]  Or at the cool, calculating attempts of Smith to rob them of their +Virtue" [[strikethrough]] by [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] by the instrumentality of his Wooden peg! [[/underlined]]  [[left margin note]] + and circle with plus sign through it [[/left margin note]]

After the Porpoise scene was through, the ships Company had divided off into little [[?Bunks]], I asked the Captain if Sterry's whistling done any good?  'No, none whatsoever!' was his answer.  'Well', said the immortal Sterry, who was within hearing 'I guess it did not do much of any harm any hows Captain'
Sterry then turned to me & said: 'Capt. Hall (so he always titles me), I tell you what it is:  Before you have been up North a great while, you'll find you've got to whistle as many whistles as there are species of 'hanimals birds & fishes, or you can never get along up there - you can never Captain stick to things unless you whistle'.
'Please tell us Mr. Sterry what you do when you see a Whale.  'O, then me always holler'! was the quaint reply.

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[[circle with plus sign through it]] The Harpoon as used by Americans has a jointed barb which is held by a small pine pin in a certain position until thrown into the whale when by the breaking of said pin the whale is made fast.