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The pale Usher—threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality. ‘While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue leaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh the signification of the word, you deliver that. | MoBy Dick By Herman Melville ETYMOLOGY. Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School The pale Usher threadbare in coat heart body and brain I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars with a queer handkerchief mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality. Whileyou take in hand to school others and to teach them by what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue leaving out through ignorance the letter H which almost alone maketh the signification of the word you deliver that which is not true HACKLUYT WHALE. . Sw. and Dan. HVAL. This animal is named from roundness or rolling for in Dan. HVALT is arched or vaulted WEBSTER S DICTIONARY WHALE. . It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. WALLEN . WALW-IAN to roll to wallow. RICHARDSON S DICTIONARY KETOS GREEK. 2 Moby Dick CETUS LATIN. WHOEL ANGLO-SAXON. HVALT DANISH. WAL DUTCH. HWAL SWEDISH. WHALE ICELANDIC. WHALE ENGLISH. BALEINE FRENCH. BALLENA SPANISH. PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE FEGEE. PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE ERROMANGOAN. EXTRACTS Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian . It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever sacred or profane. Therefore you must not in every case at least take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements however authentic in these extracts for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally as well as the poets here appearing these extracts are solely valuable or entertaining as affording a glancing bird s eye view of what has been promiscuously said thought fancied and sung of Leviathan by many nations and generations including our own. Free eBooks at Planet