Mystery of the Whale Tattoo
Mystery of the Whale Tattoo
“Frank asked in surprise.
“Scrimshaw’s the answer to that,” Chet replied proudly. “I’ve learned a lot in my hobby. It’s pretty hard to study the art of carving whale ivory without picking up some information on whales themselves.”
“That’s obvious,” Joe said. “Come on, Chet. Get to the point.”
As the only person in the room who knew the answer to the riddle, Chet was enjoying his position and consequently in no hurry.
“Look,” he said. “First, there are two general classes of whales: toothed whale...s, like the Sperm Whale and the Killer Whale and the Bottlenose and so on. And what they call baleen whales. None of the whales in this last group—the group, incidentally, that Tony and Biff’s Blue Whale belonged to—have any teeth. They all have a series of ‘plates’ in their mouths that act like giant sieves. They swim around with their mouths open, take in a couple of tons of water that has food in it like shrimps and tiny fish, then close their mouths and expel the water through the plates, or as they’re properly known—through the baleen.”MoreLess
“Scrimshaw’s the answer to that,” Chet replied proudly. “I’ve learned a lot in my hobby. It’s pretty hard to study the art of carving whale ivory without picking up some information on whales themselves.”
“That’s obvious,” Joe said. “Come on, Chet. Get to the point.”
As the only person in the room who knew the answer to the riddle, Chet was enjoying his position and consequently in no hurry.
“Look,” he said. “First, there are two general classes of whales: toothed whale...s, like the Sperm Whale and the Killer Whale and the Bottlenose and so on. And what they call baleen whales. None of the whales in this last group—the group, incidentally, that Tony and Biff’s Blue Whale belonged to—have any teeth. They all have a series of ‘plates’ in their mouths that act like giant sieves. They swim around with their mouths open, take in a couple of tons of water that has food in it like shrimps and tiny fish, then close their mouths and expel the water through the plates, or as they’re properly known—through the baleen.”MoreLess
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