Will the crocodile respect the carcass? Follow your heart, death; follow your feelings, destruction. You find grasshoppers where you find a field. Earth does not become grain. Don't grind pepper for a bird on the wing. The flower comes, age comes. When the father is spotted, the son is spotted. The plant sprouts before it climbs. When he can't wring the ear, he pulls the horn. The creel says the basket is poorly made. Ask from one who has, Make vows at a shrine, Sulk with him who loves you. When the house is done the chisel finds fault. As the crow goes back to his nest (no richer, no poorer). Whoever eats chilies burns his mouth. Because of the mouth the body comes to harm. If you are at the river's mouth at nightfall, what's the use of talking of return? A broken thread may be mended, but charcoal never. The pea forgets its pod. As water rolls from a _kladi_ leaf. A shipwrecked vessel may float again, a heart once broken is broken forever. It is a project, and the result with God. He carries a torch in daylight. A slave who does well is never praised; if he does badly, never forgiven. It rains gold afar, but stone at home. What if you sit on a cushion of gold with an uneasy mind! When money leaves, your friend goes. If you dip your hand into the fish tub, go to the bottom. Whoever digs a hole falls into it himself. If your legs are long, have your blanket long. Like a frog under a cocoanut shell, he thinks he sees the sky. If you can't get rattan, bind with roots. The plantain does not bear twice. He sits like a cat, but leaps like a tiger. The tortoise lays a thousand eggs and tells no one; the hen lays a single egg and tells all the world. Those will die of thirst who empty the jar when it thunders in a dry time. Handsome as a princess, poisonous as a snake. Small as an ant, wise as a mouse-deer. LIFE ON A SOUTH SEA WHALER.[13] BY FRANK T. BULLEN. Cachalots, or sperm whales, must have been captured on the coasts of Europe in a desultory way from a very early date, by the incidental allusions to the prime products spermaceti and ambergris which are found in so many ancient writers. Shakespeare's reference--"The sovereign'st thing on earth was parmaceti for an inward bruise"--will be familiar to most people, as well as Milton's mention of the delicacies at Satan's feast--"Grisamber steamed"--not to carry quotation any further. But in the year 1690 the brave and hardy fishermen of the northeast coasts of North America established that systematic pursuit of the cachalot which has thriven so wonderfully ever since, although it must be confessed that the last few years have witnessed a serious decline in this great branch of trade.