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Whalers called a lot of things porpoises. Sometimes they were dolphins. Sometimes they were mahi mahi.
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Panel 1 [Josiah Ripley and Frances Goldwhit are working to get the fish over the bulwarks as Samuel Nelson turns to address Adelaide.]
SAMUEL:
S’a porpoise
FRANCIS:
It changes colors when it dies. Would the lady like to see?
Panel 2 [Adelaide, frowning slightly, opens her book again while still speaking to the men.]
ADELAIDE:
That’s quite all right.
Panel 3 [Lawrence peacefully sweeps in the foreground as the group of men haul the flailing fish up on deck and Adelaide returns back to reading aloud]
Panel 4 [Same shot, only now a scream is coming off camera. Lawrence is looking up in alarm, as is everyone else in the background]
JACKSON:
Ahhhhhhh—-(thud onomatopoeia)
SAMUEL:
S’a porpoise
FRANCIS:
It changes colors when it dies. Would the lady like to see?
Panel 2 [Adelaide, frowning slightly, opens her book again while still speaking to the men.]
ADELAIDE:
That’s quite all right.
Panel 3 [Lawrence peacefully sweeps in the foreground as the group of men haul the flailing fish up on deck and Adelaide returns back to reading aloud]
Panel 4 [Same shot, only now a scream is coming off camera. Lawrence is looking up in alarm, as is everyone else in the background]
JACKSON:
Ahhhhhhh—-(thud onomatopoeia)
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