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Moby-DickCHAPTER 80. The Nut.

ContentsMoby-DickChapter 1CHAPTER 1. Loomings.Chapter 2CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.Chapter 3CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.Chapter 4CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.Chapter 5CHAPTER 5. Breakfast.Chapter 6CHAPTER 6. The Street.Chapter 7CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.Chapter 8CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.Chapter 9CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.Chapter 10CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.Chapter 11CHAPTER 11. Nightgown.Chapter 12CHAPTER 12. Biographical.Chapter 13CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.Chapter 14CHAPTER 14. Nantucket.Chapter 15CHAPTER 15. Chowder.Chapter 16CHAPTER 16. The Ship.Chapter 17CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.Chapter 18CHAPTER 18. His Mark.Chapter 19CHAPTER 19. The Prophet.Chapter 20CHAPTER 20. All Astir.Chapter 21CHAPTER 21. Going Aboard.Chapter 22CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.Chapter 23CHAPTER 23. The Lee Shore.Chapter 24CHAPTER 24. The Advocate.Chapter 25CHAPTER 25. Postscript.Chapter 26CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires.Chapter 27CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.Chapter 28CHAPTER 28. Ahab.Chapter 29CHAPTER 29. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb.Chapter 30CHAPTER 30. The Pipe.Chapter 31CHAPTER 31. Queen Mab.Chapter 32CHAPTER 32. Cetology.Chapter 33CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder.Chapter 34CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.Chapter 35CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.Chapter 36CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck.Chapter 37CHAPTER 37. Sunset.Chapter 38CHAPTER 38. Dusk.Chapter 39CHAPTER 39. First Night-Watch.Chapter 40CHAPTER 40. Midnight, Forecastle.Chapter 41CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.Chapter 42CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of the Whale.Chapter 43CHAPTER 43. Hark!Chapter 44CHAPTER 44. The Chart.Chapter 45CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.Chapter 46CHAPTER 46. Surmises.Chapter 47CHAPTER 47. The Mat-Maker.Chapter 48CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.Chapter 49CHAPTER 49. The Hyena.Chapter 50CHAPTER 50. Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah.Chapter 51CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.Chapter 52CHAPTER 52. The Albatross.Chapter 53CHAPTER 53. The Gam.Chapter 54CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho’s Story.Chapter 55CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.Chapter 56CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True Chapter 57CHAPTER 57. Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Chapter 58CHAPTER 58. Brit.Chapter 59CHAPTER 59. Squid.Chapter 60CHAPTER 60. The Line.Chapter 61CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.Chapter 62CHAPTER 62. The Dart.Chapter 63CHAPTER 63. The Crotch.Chapter 64CHAPTER 64. Stubb’s Supper.Chapter 65CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.Chapter 66CHAPTER 66. The Shark Massacre.Chapter 67CHAPTER 67. Cutting In.Chapter 68CHAPTER 68. The Blanket.Chapter 69CHAPTER 69. The Funeral.Chapter 70CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx.Chapter 71CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam’s Story.Chapter 72CHAPTER 72. The Monkey-Rope.Chapter 73CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk Chapter 74CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale’s Head—Contrasted View.Chapter 75CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale’s Head—Contrasted View.Chapter 76CHAPTER 76. The Battering-Ram.Chapter 77CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun.Chapter 78CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets.Chapter 79CHAPTER 79. The Prairie.Chapter 80CHAPTER 80. The Nut.Chapter 81CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.Chapter 82CHAPTER 82. The Honor and Glory of Whaling.Chapter 83CHAPTER 83. Jonah Historically Regarded.Chapter 84CHAPTER 84. Pitchpoling.Chapter 85CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.Chapter 86CHAPTER 86. The Tail.Chapter 87CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.Chapter 88CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters.Chapter 89CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.Chapter 90CHAPTER 90. Heads or Tails.Chapter 91CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud.Chapter 92CHAPTER 92. Ambergris.Chapter 93CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.Chapter 94CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand.Chapter 95CHAPTER 95. The Cassock.Chapter 96CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.Chapter 97CHAPTER 97. The Lamp.Chapter 98CHAPTER 98. Stowing Down and Clearing Up.Chapter 99CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.Chapter 100CHAPTER 100. Leg and Arm.Chapter 101CHAPTER 101. The Decanter.Chapter 102CHAPTER 102. A Bower in the Arsacides.Chapter 103CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale’s Skeleton.Chapter 104CHAPTER 104. The Fossil Whale.Chapter 105CHAPTER 105. Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish?—Will He Perish?Chapter 106CHAPTER 106. Ahab’s Leg.Chapter 107CHAPTER 107. The Carpenter.Chapter 108CHAPTER 108. Ahab and the Carpenter.Chapter 109CHAPTER 109. Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin.Chapter 110CHAPTER 110. Queequeg in His Coffin.Chapter 111CHAPTER 111. The Pacific.Chapter 112CHAPTER 112. The Blacksmith.Chapter 113CHAPTER 113. The Forge.Chapter 114CHAPTER 114. The Gilder.Chapter 115CHAPTER 115. The Pequod Meets The Bachelor.Chapter 116CHAPTER 116. The Dying Whale.Chapter 117CHAPTER 117. The Whale Watch.Chapter 118CHAPTER 118. The Quadrant.Chapter 119CHAPTER 119. The Candles.Chapter 120CHAPTER 120. The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch.Chapter 121CHAPTER 121. Midnight.—The Forecastle Bulwarks.Chapter 122CHAPTER 122. Midnight Aloft.—Thunder and Lightning.Chapter 123CHAPTER 123. The Musket.Chapter 124CHAPTER 124. The Needle.Chapter 125CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line.Chapter 126CHAPTER 126. The Life-Buoy.Chapter 127CHAPTER 127. The Deck.Chapter 128CHAPTER 128. The Pequod Meets The Rachel.Chapter 129CHAPTER 129. The Cabin.Chapter 130CHAPTER 130. The Hat.Chapter 131CHAPTER 131. The Pequod Meets The Delight.Chapter 132CHAPTER 132. The Symphony.Chapter 133CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.Chapter 134CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day.Chapter 135CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.

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