“Sixty-seventy feet.”
“Good. How long be you?”
“Nigh six feet.”
“Any whale that amounts to anythin’ is ten times as long as you be, hain’t he?”
“Calc’late he is.”
“But a whale runs to mouth and head, don’t he? Whale’s mouth’s more’n ten times as big as your’n?”
“Yes,” says Rameses III, “but I hain’t sure it’s ten times bigger’n your’n.”
“It’s fifty times bigger,” says Naboth.
“Mebby.”
“Why? I ask you why. Tell me that, consarn ye. Tell me why has a whale got a mouth as big as that.”