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full of tobacco-pipes and tobacco, and flints and steels.
So he took up a pipe, filled it with tobacco, lit it, and
began to smoke. He smoked out one pipe, filled
another, and smoked that too; then he filled a third,
and began smoking that. At last the smoke inside

 

the whale made it feel so uncomfortable that it opened
its mouth, swam ashore, and went asleep on the beach.
Now some huntsmen happened to be going along the
beach at that time, and one of them saw the whale,
and said : “ Look, my brethren ! we have been hunting
jays and crows and shot nothing, and lo! what a