Excerpt from The Presentation of the Whaleman Statue to the City of New Bedford by William W. Crapo and the Exercises at the Dedication, June Twentieth, Nineteen Hundred and Thirteen Let his monument stand, with his harpoon in hand, Sturdy son of the sea who dragged wealth to the land In defiance of hardship and danger. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.