1 Lord save me, thinks I, that must be the harpooneer, the infernal head-peddler.
2 I could not help it, but I began to feel suspicious of this "dark complexioned" harpooneer.
3 Besides, it was getting late, and my decent harpooneer ought to be home and going bedwards.
4 The more I pondered over this harpooneer, the more I abominated the thought of sleeping with him.
5 Oh, no," said he, looking a sort of diabolically funny, "the harpooneer is a dark complexioned chap.
6 Now, while all these ideas were passing through me like lightning, this harpooneer never noticed me at all.
7 I concluded that this harpooneer, in the course of his distant voyages, must have met with a similar adventure.
8 I sat down on the side of the bed, and commenced thinking about this head-peddling harpooneer, and his door mat.
9 He had been a sailor and a harpooneer in his youth, but for many years past had dedicated his life to the ministry.
10 But though the other boarders kept coming in by ones, twos, and threes, and going to bed, yet no sign of my harpooneer.
11 I come to your house and want a bed; you tell me you can only give me half a one; that the other half belongs to a certain harpooneer.
12 It was fair to presume that being a harpooneer, his linen or woollen, as the case might be, would not be of the tidiest, certainly none of the finest.
13 I now demand of you to speak out and tell me who and what this harpooneer is, and whether I shall be in all respects safe to spend the night with him.
14 And when it comes to sleeping with an unknown stranger, in a strange inn, in a strange town, and that stranger a harpooneer, then your objections indefinitely multiply.
15 Of things not properly belonging to the room, there was a hammock lashed up, and thrown upon the floor in one corner; also a large seaman's bag, containing the harpooneer's wardrobe, no doubt in lieu of a land trunk.
16 Still, looking round me again, and seeing no possible chance of spending a sufferable night unless in some other person's bed, I began to think that after all I might be cherishing unwarrantable prejudices against this unknown harpooneer.
17 But beginning to feel very cold now, half undressed as I was, and remembering what the landlord said about the harpooneer's not coming home at all that night, it being so very late, I made no more ado, but jumped out of my pantaloons and boots, and then blowing out the light tumbled into bed, and commended myself to the care of heaven.
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