THE SEA WOLF JACK LONDON CHAPTER 23 potx

... welcomed and taken into the THE SEA WOLF JACK LONDON CHAPTER 23 Brave winds, blowing fair, swiftly drove the Ghost northward into the seal herd. We encountered it well up to the forty-fourth ... not. I noted them walking the deck together one morning, and I likened them to the extreme ends of the human ladder of evolution - the one the culmination of al...

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... raiding THE SEA WOLF JACK LONDON CHAPTER 18 The next day, while the storm was blowing itself out, Wolf Larsen and I crammed anatomy and surgery and set Mugridge's ribs. Then, when the ... driven far to the southward and out of the seal herd. We must have been well in the path of the trans-Pacific steamships when the typhoon moderated, and here, to th...

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... skinned and inflamed clear across, the fingers swollen, the nails THE SEA WOLF JACK LONDON CHAPTER 20 The remainder of the day passed uneventfully. The young slip of a gale, having wetted ... myself. I knew these men and their mental processes, was one of them myself, living the seal-hunting life, eating the seal-hunting fare, thinking, largely, the seal-hunt...

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... greater coolness. I noted that the boats were missing. The steerage told the same tale as the forecastle. The hunters had packed their belongings with similar haste. The Ghost was deserted. It ... thought of the ship's stores and the lazarette beneath the cabin, and the idea came to me of surprising Maud with something nice for breakfast. The reaction from my fe...

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... remember that the sounds they made reminded me of the squealing of pigs under the knife of the butcher, and I was struck with horror at the vividness of the analogy. These women, capable of the most ... I can see it now, - the jagged edges of the hole in the side of the cabin, through which the grey fog swirled and eddied; the empty upholstered seats, littered wi...

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... THE SEA WOLF JACK LONDON CHAPTER 3 Wolf Larsen ceased swearing as suddenly as he had begun. He relighted his cigar and glanced around. His eyes chanced upon the cook. "Well, ... me like a wolf- chorus or the barking of hell-hounds. The sailors trooped noisily aft, some of the watch below rubbing the sleep from their eyes, and talked in low tones together....

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... I. THE SEA WOLF JACK LONDON CHAPTER 4 What happened to me next on the sealing-schooner Ghost, as I strove to fit into my new environment, are matters of humiliation and pain. The cook, ... the hunters, a tall, loose-jointed chap named Henderson, was going aft at the time from the steerage (the name the hunters facetiously gave their midships sleeping quarters...

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... that in the end will cease to move. The big eat the little that they may continue to move, the strong eat the weak that they may retain their strength. The lucky eat the most and move the longest, ... into Wolf Larsen's soul, or seen it at all, - of this I am other men, and who eat the food the other men get and would like to eat themselves. You wear the warm...

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... I had with Wolf Larsen in the cabin, while I was washing the dishes. THE SEA WOLF JACK LONDON CHAPTER 6 By the following morning the storm had blown itself quite out and the Ghost was ... like the hunters, and them that don't know, like the poor devils of wind-jammers for'ard there. But they'll come to it, they'll come to it, an' b...

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... work at all for the sailors to do except to steer. At night when the sun went down, the sheets were slackened; in the morning, when they yielded up the damp of the dew and relaxed, they were pulled ... despair slowly left me. Then some deep- water sailor, from the waist of the ship, lifted a rich tenor voice in the "Song of the Trade Wind": "Oh, I am the...

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