Chapter 90 - Heads or Tails

"But why should the King have the head, and the Queen the tail? A reason for that, ye lawyers!"

In England, royalty would literally steal your whale after you did all the hard and life threatening work. The whale was brought on land and sailors would sit down with "rare tea with their wives, and good ale with their cronies", you know, as a reward, and some jerk would come and seize it.