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As Quikwegg and I are now fairly embarked in this business of wailing,

and as this business of wailing has somehow come to be regarded among landsmen,

as a rather unpoetical and disreputable pursuit,

therefore I am all anxiety to convince you,

elansmen, of the injustice hereby done to us, hunters of whales.

In the first place, it may be deemed almost superfluous to establish the fact

that among people at large, the business of wailing is not accounted on a level

with what are called the liberal professions.

If a stranger were introduced into any miscellaneous metropolitan society,

it would but slightly advance the general opinion of his merits,

where he presented to the company as a harpooner, say.

And if an emulation of the naval officers, he should append the initials SWF,

sperm whale fishery, to his visiting card, such a procedure would be deemed preeminently presuming

and ridiculous.

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