id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt chapter-036 chapter-036 .txt text/plain 2252 98 73 It is noon; and Dough-Boy, the steward, thrusting his pale loaf-of-bread face from the cabin-scuttle, announces dinner to his lord deck, and in an even, unexhilarated voice, saying, "Dinner, Mr. Starbuck," disappears into the cabin. likewise takes up the old burden, and with a rapid "Dinner, Mr. Flask," then, independent, hilarious little Flask enters King Ahab's presence, very officers the next moment go down to their customary dinner in that private dinner-table of invited guests, that man's unchallenged power Over his ivory-inlaid table, Ahab presided like a mute, maned sea-lion knife and fork, between which the slice of beef was locked, Ahab For hereby Flask's dinner was badly vengeance, was to go aft at dinner-time, and get a peep at Flask Now, Ahab and his three mates formed what may be called the first table But, though these barbarians dined in the cabin, and nominally lived ./cache/chapter-036.txt ./txt/chapter-036.txt