Moby Dick: Ch 64: Stubb's Supper
The whole of Ch 64: Stubb's Supper is amazing, especially the dialogue between Stubb & Fleece (the old black cook ordered to cook a shark steak and preach to the sharks) -- and I'd totally forgotten it. Just a tidbit, cut from the end: But Fleece had hardly got three paces off, when he was recalled. "Cook, give me cutlets for supper to-morrow night in the mid-watch. D'ye hear? away you sail, then. — Halloa! stop! make a bow before you go. — Avast heaving again! Whale-balls for breakfast — don't forget." "Wish, by gor! whale eat him, 'stead of him eat whale. I'm bressed if he ain't more of shark dan Massa Shark hisself," muttered the old man, limping away; with which sage ejaculation he went to his hammock.