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/ Preliminary Matter.  =/ This text of Melville's ^Moby-Dick is based on the
Hendricks House  =/ edition. It was prepared by Professor Eugene F. Irey at the
University  =/ of Colorado.  Any subsequent copies of this data must include
this notice  =/ and any publications resulting from analysis of this data must
include  =/ reference to Professor Irey's work.  Etymology  (Supplied by a late
consumptive usher to a  grammar school.)  The pale Usher_threadbare in coat,
heart, body, and brain;  I see him now.  He was ever  dusting his old lexicons
and grammars,  with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with  all the
gay flags of all the known nations of the world.  He loved  to dust his old
grammars;  it somehow mildly reminded him of  his mortality.
Extracts  (supplied by a sub-sub-librarian.)  It will be seen that this mere
painstaking burrower and grubworm  of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have
gone through  the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up
wha . . .