It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him. - Herman Melville

And thus, through the courage and great skill in obstetrics of Queequeg, the deliverance, or rather, delivery of Tashtego, was successfully accomplished, in the teeth, too, of the most untoward and apparently hopeless impediments; which is a lesson by no means to be forgotten. Midwifery should be taught in the same course with fencing and boxing, riding and rowing.

but the reason why the grave-digger made music must have been because there was none in his spade

Ignorance is the parent of fear