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...first case is the funniest, and from it you may gain an idea of the manner of all the rest. It is "Tiurib, Rumble, and Others v. The King and Queen"--Fish Royal. Tinrib, Rumble and others bring suit against the King and Queen for the removal of a whale which has been cast ashore near the town of Pudding Magna. The whale, according to ancient decree is fish royal and belongs to their majesties. Consequently the inhabitants of Pudding Magna are not going to take matters into their own hands, although "all fishing was suspended in Pudding Bay; Pudding...
This left open the problem of w?ho is going to man the ships. In London soap circles, it was said that, while enough British seamen trained in whaling simply do not exist to man the British whaling fleet today, it could perfectly well be sent to Southern waters with British crews who could learn to hunt whales as they went along. In case the British whaling ships actually are sent south now with green crews, Norwegian whalers vowed last week that they will send their ships and experienced crews speeding ahead to the Antarctic and start a free...
...full-dress diplomatic whale dispute between London and Oslo has grown out of what is, in the opinion of Norwegians, a desire on the part of British firms to kill such an excessive number of whales each year that they will end by killing off entirely these great mammals and crippling one of Norway's chief industries. Norwegians feel sure that they know more about whales than any other people. They are left cold by the desk-decisions of British soap magnates such as Unilever Ltd. which own British whale-killing and blubber-boiling "factory ships" on which...
...Kingdom of Norway's latest note to the British Empire, Oslo again demanded limitation of the annual whale-oil haul to 2,265,000 barrels, whereas British soap makers insist on 2,529,000. Even more vital, Norway claimed, is the need of fixing quotas for each expedition and preventing these quotas from being transferred or juggled from one expedition to another. Said the Norwegian note: "This is the only means of preventing the extermination of the whale...
...from his own blunder. When that time comes poor Bilbo will be confronted with the old nigger preacher's text which he said would be found in the 19th Chapter and 16th verse of Duteronimy ∣sic∣ and reads as follows: 'And Jonah said unto the whale, if you had kept your damned mouth shut, this never would have happened...