Dutch Courage and Other Stories

by Jack London

Overview

Just our luck! Gus Lafee finished wiping his hands and sullenly threw the towel upon the rocks. His attitude was one of deep dejection. The light seemed gone out of the day and the glory from the golden sun. Even the keen mountain air was devoid of relish, and the early morning no longer yielded its customary zest. "Just our luck!" Gus repeated, this time avowedly for the edification of another young fellow who was busily engaged in sousing his head in the water of the lake. "What are you grumbling about, anyway?" Hazard Van Dorn lifted a soap-rimmed face questioningly. His eyes were shut. "What's our luck?" "Look there!" Gus threw a moody glance skyward. "Some duffer's got ahead of us. We've been scooped, that's all!"

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781633551329
Publisher:	Start Classics
Publication date:	05/16/2014
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	91
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

John Griffith "Jack" London (January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone, including science fiction.

Table of Contents

Preface — Dutch courage — Typhoon off the coast of Japan — The lost poacher — The banks of the Sacramento — Chris Farrington: Able seaman — To Repel Boarders — An Adventure in the upper sea — Bald-face — In Yeddo bay — Whose business is to live.