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Old Stormalong became very angry. He did a wonderful thing. He
swam back to the ship and took down a mast. Then he cut rope for a
line. Next he put an anchor on for a hook. He made the biggest fishing
pole in the world. Finally he put a piece of salt pork on the anchor.
“I will catch that whale like a fish,” he said.
Stormalong threw the line to a whale. The anchor flew through the
air and hit the water by the whale. The whale bit the anchor and swam
away. It pulled the Nancy Ann all over the ocean, up and down, to
Cape Cod.
Captain Starbuck thought he had the biggest whale in the world. “It
was a lucky day when I met you, Stormalong,” said the captain.
Then the Cape Cod sea monster came up from the deep sea. The
monster bit the whale and ate it all. It ate the anchor, too, and sank
down into the sea.
“You big elephant!” cried Captain Starbuck again to Stormalong.
“You lost my whale.”
“I tried sailing, and I tried whaling,” said Stormalong. “The ships are
too small, and a man gets tired. I am going to be a farmer, and you can
bet on that.” He jumped off the ship and walked through the water to
shore.
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