known locally monster whale swam eastern scotland hunt escaped found floating dead week later towed exhibited train tour scotland england professor anatomy whale time public military band playing background organised woods whale woods great deal money famous wrote bad poem events history december whale appeared shore time country major port attracted local interest normally hunted arctic boats harbour winter decided hunt animal waters failed attempts december strong male towed rowing boats far struggle lasted night lines broke whale escaped week later whale found dead floating sea towed dragged beach professor anatomy quickly visited recording feet long measuring feet inches local entrepreneur bought whale transported yard sunday people paid local newspaper published stories whale november january headlines included appearance whale river november whale hunting november return whale november trail whale december christmas whale december whale interviewed mother exploits poem december january whale hunt escape whale january runaway whale january whale found dead january whale corpus january recovered whale sale monster man january finally january whale badly public exhibition allowed come famous specimen working room reputed like deck greenland assistants disturbed admitted public fee watch progress military band played background snow showers able remove skeleton woods flesh stuffed taken profitable tour far edinburgh london finally august able remove skull rest skeleton eventually wrote seven anatomy articles decade whale ultimately published complete monograph entitled memoir anatomy whale whale skeleton displayed fame popularly famous largest specimen wide range specimens species collected form museum illustrate darwin theories fame whale famous poet wrote notably bad poem famous whale verses run opinion god sent whale time need matter people think creed know fishermen general poor god goodness sent drive poverty door bought pound brought safe sound measures feet length snout tail advise people far near fail piece verse whale poet signing spectator published whale interviewed mother exploits verses went son son range gun fear mother shoot wide mark drawings whale
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