Sing out and say something, my hearties.
Roar and pull, my thunderbolts!
Beach me, beach me on their black backs, boys; only do that for me, and I’ll sign over to you my Martha’s Vineyard plantation, boys; including wife and children, boys.
Lay me on—lay me on!
O Lord, Lord!
but I shall go stark, staring mad!
See!
see that white water! And so shouting, he pulled his hat from his head, and stamped up and down on it; then picking it up, flirted it far off upon the sea; and finally fell to rearing and plunging in the boat’s stern like a crazed colt from the prairie.