![]() ![]() Bastable could not tolerate any form of marsupial, so kangaroo and wallaby were out of the question. ![]() What is less to be expected, however, is their extreme finickiness as regarding their “slops.” It seemed that each one of them suffered from some manner of digestive impairment which required the most fastidious tending. Naturally, whalers are ill-mannered as a rule and boast enormous appetites-that is to be expected. At one point when I was reading Rush Oh!*, Shirley Barrett’s debut novel about the 1908 whaling season in New South Wales, Australia, I found myself wondering what it would have been like if the men of the Pequod had popped home for supper every night. ![]()
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