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free the fast-fish\u2014an old trick\u2014I know him.\u201d\r\n            <\/p>\r\n\r\n            <p>\r\n                \u201cHow it was exactly,\u201d continued the one-armed commander, \u201cI do not know;\r\n                but in biting the line, it got foul of his teeth, caught there somehow;\r\n                but we didn\u2019t know it then; so that when we afterwards pulled on the line,\r\n                bounce we came plump on to his hump! instead of the other whale\u2019s;\r\n                that went off to windward, all fluking.\u201d\r\n            <\/p>\r\n\r\n            <p>\r\n                Seeing how matters stood, and what a noble great whale it was\u2014the noblest\r\n                and biggest I ever saw, sir, in my life\u2014I resolved to capture him, spite\r\n                of the boiling rage he seemed to be in.\r\n            <\/p>\r\n\r\n            <p>\r\n                I jumped into Mounttop\u2019s boat, which, d\u2019ye see, was gunwale and gunwale\r\n                with mine, then; 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