The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries

"[...]tell you straight, I don't like it. Gloomy," he continued, "an' the rest of you, stand by your oars. That's a gray whale an' I'm goin' after him." "How do you know it's a California whale, Hank?" asked the boy, as they waited for the creature to reappear. "By the spout," was the prompt reply. "It's not as high an' thin as a finback's, it's not large enough for the low, bushy spout of a humpback, an' it goes straight up instead of at a forward angle so it can't be a sperm. Must be a gray whale, can't be anythin' else." For a few minutes the men rested on their oars, and Colin grew restless.[...]".