John Frewen, South Sea Whaler, by Louis Becke
Produced by David Widger
JOHN FREWEN, SOUTH SEA WHALER
From "Chinkie's Flat And Other Stories"
By Louis Becke
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company 1904
BOOK I
CHAPTER I
Captain Ethan Keller, of the Casilda of Nantucket, was in a very bad temper, for in four days he had lost two of the five boats the barque carried--one had been hopelessly stove by the dreaded "underclip" given her by a crafty old bull sperm-whale, and the other, which was in charge of the second mate, had not been seen for seventy hours. When last sighted she was fast to the same bull which had destroyed the first mate's boat; it was then nearly dark, and the whale, which was of an enormous size, although he had three irons in his body and was towing the whole length
