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    Stories of Ships and the Sea Little Blue Book # 1169
    Stories of Ships and the Sea Little Blue Book # 1169
    Stories of Ships and the Sea Little Blue Book # 1169
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    Stories of Ships and the Sea Little Blue Book # 1169

    By E. (Emanuel) Haldeman-Julius and Jack London

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    Release dateSep 1, 1999
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      Stories of Ships and the Sea Little Blue Book # 1169 - E. (Emanuel) Haldeman-Julius

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Stories of Ships and the Sea, by Jack London

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      Title: Stories of Ships and the Sea

      Little Blue Book #1169

      Author: Jack London

      Editor: E. Haldeman-Julius

      Release Date: March 27, 2006 [EBook #18062]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK STORIES OF SHIPS AND THE SEA ***

      Produced by Ted Garvin, Emmy and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Stories of Ships

      and the Sea

      Jack London

      HALDEMAN-JULIUS COMPANY

      GIRARD, KANSAS

      Copyright, 1922,

      By Charmian London.

      Reprinted by Arrangement.

      PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      CONTENTS

      STORIES OF SHIPS AND THE SEA

      CHRIS FARRINGTON: ABLE SEAMAN

      "If you vas in der old country ships, a liddle shaver like you vood pe only der boy, und you vood wait on der able seamen. Und ven der able seaman sing out, 'Boy, der water-jug!' you vood jump quick, like a shot, und bring der water-jug. Und ven der able seaman sing out, 'Boy, my boots!' you vood get der boots. Und you vood pe politeful, und say 'Yessir' und 'No sir.' But you pe in der American ship, and you t'ink you are so good as der able seamen. Chris, mine boy, I haf ben a sailorman for twenty-two years, und do you t'ink you are so good as me? I vas a sailorman pefore you vas borned, und I knot und reef und splice

      ven you play mit topstrings und fly kites."

      But you are unfair, Emil! cried Chris Farrington, his sensitive face flushed and hurt. He was a slender though strongly built young fellow of seventeen, with Yankee ancestry writ large all over him.

      Dere you go vonce again! the Swedish sailor exploded. My name is Mister Johansen, und a kid of a boy like you call me 'Emil!' It vas insulting, und comes pecause of der American ship!

      But you call me 'Chris'! the boy expostulated, reproachfully.

      But you vas a boy.

      Who does a man's work, Chris retorted. "And because I do a man's work I have as much right to call you by your first name as you me. We are all equals in this fo'castle, and you know it. When we signed for the voyage in San Francisco, we signed as sailors on the Sophie Sutherland and there was no difference made with any of us. Haven't I always done my work? Did I ever shirk? Did you or any other man ever have to take a wheel for me? Or a lookout? Or go aloft?"

      Chris is right, interrupted a young English sailor. No man has had to do a tap of his work yet. He signed as good as any of us and he's shown himself as good—

      Better! broke in a Novia Scotia man. Better than some of us! When we struck the sealing-grounds he turned out to be next to the best boat-steerer aboard. Only French Louis, who'd been at it for years, could beat him. I'm only a boat-puller, and you're only a boat-puller, too, Emil Johansen, for all your twenty-two years at sea. Why don't you become a boat-steerer?

      Too clumsy, laughed the Englishman, and too slow.

      Little that counts, one way or the other, joined in Dane Jurgensen, coming to the aid of his Scandinavian brother. Emil is a man grown and an able seaman; the boy is neither.

      And so the argument raged back and forth, the Swedes, Norwegians and Danes, because of race kinship, taking the part of Johansen, and the English, Canadians and Americans taking the part of Chris. From an unprejudiced point of view, the right was on the side of Chris. As he had truly said, he did a man's work, and the same work that any of them did. But they were prejudiced, and badly so, and out of the words which passed rose a standing quarrel which divided the forecastle into two parties.

      The Sophie Sutherland was a seal-hunter, registered out of San Francisco, and engaged in hunting the furry sea-animals along the Japanese coast north to Bering Sea. The other vessels were two-masted schooners, but she was a three-master and the largest in the fleet. In fact, she was a full-rigged, three-topmast schooner, newly built.

      Although Chris Farrington knew that justice was with him, and that he performed all his work faithfully and well, many a time, in secret thought, he longed for some pressing emergency to arise whereby he could demonstrate to the Scandinavian seamen that he also was an able seaman.

      But one stormy night, by an accident for which he was in nowise accountable, in overhauling a spare anchor-chain he had all the fingers of his left hand badly crushed. And his hopes were likewise crushed, for it was impossible for him to continue hunting with the boats, and he was forced to stay idly aboard until his fingers should heal. Yet, although he little dreamed

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