It's 500 years ago and there's an evil genius and his goal is to eliminate as much as he

possibly can, the whale population of the earth.

The problem is, of course, that whales live in the ocean and they're hard to find and

hard to hunt.

What to do if your goal is to eliminate all the whales?

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Well, of course, if you want to get rid of all the whales, it helps to create an entire

industry in which people get paid and raise their status and take care of their families

by hunting whales.

And so the thing to do, particularly in the colonies of, quote, the New World, is to wait

until a whale ends up on a beach, cut it open and see that the baleen, the part that is

used to filter things that it's eating, is a great way to make corsets and hoop skirts

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