And still in the distracted distance we beheld the tumults of the outer concentric circles, and saw successive pods of whales, eight or ten in each, swiftly going round and round, like multiplied spans of horses in a ring; and so closely shoulder to shoulder, that a Titanic circus-rider might easily have overarched the middle ones, and so have gone round on their backs.

Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend.

He uses a round slab of clay, which he places on top of the chum and commences to thump down around the sides.

Now you're being silly. Promise you'll put me in a home when I get really doolally. / If you're really doolally you won't know if I have or not. / So promise.