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Moby-Dick · Herman Melville

Chapter 122: Midnight Aloft.--Thunder and Lightning.

Chapter 122: Midnight Aloft.--Thunder and Lightning.

_The main-top-sail yard_.--_Tashtego passing new lashings around it_.

"Um, um, um. Stop that thunder! Plenty too much thunder up here. What's the use of thunder? Um, um, um. We don't want thunder; we want rum; give us a glass of rum. Um, um, um!"

Herman Melville. Digital source: Project Gutenberg, ebook 2701. This reading text follows the edition used in our interactive reader.