Best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was so, it was all wrapped up,

it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing's shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so

a guest. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so, for that one change me a little.

Enjoy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

Chapter 88 Schools and schoolmasters.

The previous chapter gave a count of an immense body or herd of sperm whales and there was also then given the probable cause

inducing those vast aggregations.

Now, those such great bodies are at times encountered yet as must have been seen even at the present day, small detached bands are occasionally observed, embracing some 20 to 50 individuals each.

Such bands are known as schools. They generally are of two sorts. Those composed almost entirely of females and those mustering none but young vigorous males or bulls as they are

familiarly designated. In cavalier attendance upon the school of females you invariably see a male of full grown magnitude but not old, who upon any alarm evinces his gallantry by falling in the rear and covering the flights of his ladies.

In truth this gentleman is a luxurious ottoman swimming about over the watery world, surroundingly accompanied by all the solace's and endearments of the heron.

The contrast between this ottoman and his concubines is striking because while he is always of the largest leviathanic proportions the ladies even at full growth are not more than one third of the bulk of an average sized male.

They are comparatively delicate indeed. I dare say not to exceed half a dozen yards around the waist. Nevertheless, it cannot be denied that upon the whole they are hereditaryly entitled to on bone point.

It is very curious to watch this harem and its ward in their indolent ramblings. Like fashionables, they are forever on the move and leisurely search of variety.

You meet them on the line and time for the full flower of the equatorial feeding season, having just returned perhaps from spending the summer in the northern seas, and so cheating summer of all unpleasant weariness and warmth.

By the time they have lounged up and down the promenade of the equator a while, they start for the oriental waters in anticipation of the cool season there, and so evade the other excessive temperature of the year.

When serenely advancing on one of these journeys, if any strange suspicious sights are seen, my Lord whale keeps a wary eye on his interesting family.

Should any unwarrantedly pert young leviathan coming that way, presumed to draw confidentially close to one of the ladies, with what prodigious fury the bashaal assails him and chases him away.

High times, indeed, if unprincipled young rakes like him, are to be permitted to invade the sanctity of domestic bliss.

Though, do at the bashaal will, he cannot keep the most notorious lathario out of his bed. For alas, all fish bed in common.

As a shore, the ladies often cause the most terrible duels among their rival admirers, just so with the whales, who sometimes come to deadly battle, and all for love.

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