Melville wrote very short chapters. That's one reason this book has over a 100 of them. This chapter is one of the briefest. Ishmael and Queequeg are passing the night comfortably snug in their bed. Ishmael encourages his friend to tell him his life story, which he will begin doing in the next chapter.

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