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  • I'll get the almanac and as I have heard devils can be raised with Daboll's arithmetic, I'll try my hand at raising a meaning out of these queer curvicues here with the Massachusetts calendar.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • I'll get the almanack; and as I have heard devils can be raised with Daboll's arithmetic, I'll try my hand at raising a meaning out of these queer curvicues here with the Massachusetts calendar.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • I'll get the almanack and as I have heard devils can be raised with Daboll's arithmetic, I'll try my hand at raising a meaning out of these queer curvicues here with the Massachusetts calendar.

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

  • I’ll try my hand at raising a meaning out of these queer curvicues here with the Massachusetts calendar.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

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