"spring, thou sheep-head; spring, and break thy backbone! why don’t ye spring, i say, all of ye—spring! quohog! spring, thou chap with the red whiskers; spring there, scotch-cap; spring, thou green pants. spring, i say, all of ye, and spring your eyes out!" and so saying, he moved along the windlass, here and there using his leg very freely, while imperturbable bildad kept leading off with his psalmody. thinks i, captain peleg must have been drinking something to-day.