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1Next morning Stubb accosted Flask. "Such a queer dream, King-Post, I never had. You know the old man's ivory leg, well I
2dreamed he kicked me with it; and when I tried to kick back, upon my soul, my little man, I kicked my leg right off! And
3then, presto! Ahab seemed a pyramid, and I, like a blazing fool, kept kicking at it. But what was still more curious,
4Flask--you know how curious all dreams are--through all this rage that I was in, I somehow seemed to be thinking to
5myself, that after all, it was not much of an insult, that kick from Ahab. 'Why,' thinks I, 'what's the row? It's not a
6real leg, only a false leg.' And there's a mighty difference between a living thump and a dead thump. That's what makes
7a blow from the hand, Flask, fifty times more savage to bear than a blow from a cane. The living member--that makes the
8living insult, my little man. And thinks I to myself all the while, mind, while I was stubbing my silly toes against
9that cursed pyramid--so confoundedly contradictory was it all, all the while, I say, I was thinking to myself, 'what's
10his leg now, but a cane--a whalebone cane. Yes,' thinks I, 'it was only a playful cudgelling--in fact, only a
11whaleboning that he gave me--not a base kick. Besides,' thinks I, 'look at it once; why, the end of it--the foot
12part--what a small sort of end it is; whereas, if a broad footed farmer kicked me, there's a devilish broad insult. But
13this insult is whittled down to a point only.' But now comes the greatest joke of the dream, Flask. While I was
14battering away at the pyramid, a sort of badger-haired old merman, with a hump on his back, takes me by the shoulders,
15and slews me round. 'What are you 'bout?' says he. Slid! man, but I was frightened. Such a phiz! But, somehow, next
16moment I was over the fright. 'What am I about?' says I at last. 'And what business is that of yours, I should like to
17know, Mr. Humpback? Do you want a kick?' By the lord, Flask, I had no sooner said that, than he turned round his stern
18to me, bent over, and dragging up a lot of seaweed he had for a clout--what do you think, I saw?--why thunder alive,
19man, his stern was stuck full of marlinspikes, with the points out. Says I, on second thoughts, 'I guess I won't kick
20you, old fellow.' 'Wise Stubb,' said he, 'wise Stubb;' and kept muttering it all the time, a sort of eating of his own
21gums like a chimney hag. Seeing he wasn't going to stop saying over his 'wise Stubb, wise Stubb,' I thought I might as
22well fall to kicking the pyramid again. But I had only just lifted my foot for it, when he roared out, 'Stop that
23kicking!' 'Halloa,' says I, 'what's the matter now, old fellow?' 'Look ye here,' says he; 'let's argue the insult.
24Captain Ahab kicked ye, didn't he?' 'Yes, he did,' says I--'right here it was.' 'Very good,' says he--'he used his ivory
25leg, didn't he?' 'Yes, he did,' says I. 'Well then,' says he, 'wise Stubb, what have you to complain of? Didn't he kick
26with right good will? it wasn't a common pitch pine leg he kicked with, was it? No, you were kicked by a great man, and
27with a beautiful ivory leg, Stubb. It's an honor; I consider it an honor. Listen, wise Stubb. In old England the
28greatest lords think it great glory to be slapped by a queen, and made garter-knights of; but, be your boast, Stubb,
29that ye were kicked by old Ahab, and made a wise man of. Remember what I say; be kicked by him; account his kicks
30honors; and on no account kick back; for you can't help yourself, wise Stubb. Don't you see that pyramid?' With that, he
31all of a sudden seemed somehow, in some queer fashion, to swim off into the air. I snored; rolled over; and there I was
32in my hammock! Now, what do you think of that dream, Flask?" "I don't know; it seems a sort of foolish to me, tho.'"
33"May be; may be. But it's made a wise man of me, Flask. D'ye see Ahab standing there, sideways looking over the stern?
34Well, the best thing you can do, Flask, is to let the old man alone; never speak to him, whatever he says. Halloa!
35What's that he shouts? Hark!" "Mast-head, there! Look sharp, all of ye! There are whales hereabouts! "If ye see a white
36one, split your lungs for him! "What do you think of that now, Flask? ain't there a small drop of something queer about
37that, eh? A white whale--did ye mark that, man? Look ye--there's something special in the wind. Stand by for it, Flask.
38Ahab has that that's bloody on his mind. But, mum; he comes this way."
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