"'I know him!'
"'Get out!' says I; 'how can you know a whale?'
"'But I tell you I do,' says he, 'and if you had any sense you'd know him too.'
"'How would I?' asks I.
"'Don't you see the harpoon sticking out of him?'
"I looked pretty hard, and, sure enough, there was a harpoon, with a line drifting from it.
"'That's my iron!' says the boat-steerer.
"'Get out!' says I.
"'I won't,' says he.
"'How do you know it's yours?' says I.