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CHAPTER FIFTEEN<br />
TALL TALES<br />
“Old Stormalong”<br />
Old Stormalong was the greatest and the biggest sailor of all. He was<br />
a large baby, and then he grew even bigger. He was as big as the ships<br />
of New England. He drank his soup out of a whaling boat. He slept on the<br />
deck of the ship, because there was not enough room below deck for him.<br />
“They don’t make ships big enough for me,” said Stormalong.<br />
Old Stormalong went to sea with Captain Starbuck on a whaling ship,<br />
the Nancy Ann. They sailed to the middle of the ocean and looked for<br />
whales.<br />
“There she blows! A whale! And another!” called the lookout.<br />
“It’s a whole school of whales!” called the second lookout.<br />
“Into the boats!” cried Captain Starbuck.<br />
Stormalong jumped from the ship into a whaling boat, but the whaling<br />
boat wasn’t big enough for him. He was so big that he made a hole in the<br />
bottom of the boat. The water ran in, and the sailors fell out.<br />
“You big elephant!” cried Captain Starbuck. “I’m sorry I ever saw you.”<br />
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