A male whale and his partner were swimming
off the coast of Japan when they
spotted a whaling ship. The male whale recognized
it immediately as the whaling
ship that had harpooned and killed his
father many years earlier. He said to the female
whale, "I've got an idea. Let's both
swim under the ship and blow out of our
air holes at the same time. It should make
the ship turn over and sink."
They tried it and sure enough, the ship
turned over and quickly sank. Soon,
however, the whales realized that the ship's
crew had escaped by jumping overboard
and were swimming to the safety of shore.
The male whale was furious that they were
going to get away and said to his female
companion: "Let's swim after them and
gobble them up before they reach the
shore."At this point, he realized that the female
was reluctant to follow him. "Is there a
problem?" he asked her.
"Look," she replied. "I went along with
the blow job, but there's no way I'm going
to swallow the seamen."