There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because

I'm a bit for homebody and I love a 5th but I think it's just the holiday period is just

for me it's the most romantic period and I think anyone who's listened to my records

will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance.

Joy in every sip with red carp snout back at Starbucks.

Chapter 87.

The Grand Armada.

Part 2.

All wheelboats carry certain curious contrivances, originally invented by the Nantucket Indians,

called drugs.

Two thick squares of wood of equal size are stoutly clenched together so that they cross

each other's grain at right angles.

A line of considerable length is then attached to the middle of this block and the other end

of the line being looped, it can in a moment be fastened to a harpoon.

It is chiefly among galleed whales that this draw is used.

For then more whales are close round you than you can possibly chase at one time.

But spring whales are not everyday encountered.

While you may then you must kill all you can and if you cannot kill them all at once

you must wing them so that they can be afterwards killed at your leisure.

Hence it is that at times like these the drug comes into requisition.

Our boat was furnished with three of them.

The first and second were successfully darted and we saw the whale staggeringly running

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