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“Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Tale of a Tub. Preface.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 630ef076b7240cad6ba215da8e0226c03f2d33b5dc27f53811d311e31753a6d3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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