"Very like a Whale."—What is the origin of this expression? It occurs in the following doggerel verses, supposed to be spoken by the driver of a cart laden with fish:
"This salmon has got a tail;
It's very like a whale;
It's a fish that's very merry;
They say its catch'd at Derry.
It's a fish that's got a heart;
It's catch'd and put in Dugdale's cart."
Henry H. Breen.
St. Lucia.
[This expression occurs in Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2.: