The Cruise of the DazzlerCentury Company, 1902 - Всего страниц: 250 The Cruise of the Dazzler is an early novel by Jack London, set in his home city of San Francisco. It is considered a boy's adventure novel.In the novel, Joe Bronson, dissatisfied with his dull life at school, runs away and joins the crew of a sloop he sees in San Francisco Bay. He finds the captain is involved in criminal activities.The nautical activities on board a sailing boat are authentically described, and there are convincing descriptions of boats enduring stormy weather at sea. |
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Стр. 201 - and why you came back again." 'Frisco Kid took up the tale at once, speaking in a muffled undertone close to the other's ear. " You see, when I made up my mind to quit the life, there...
Стр. 186 - Frisco Kid cried, snatching the paper away and putting it back in the ditty-box with shaking fingers. Then he added more slowly : " I thought I — I kind of thought you would understand, and— and — " His lips trembled and his eyes glistened with unwonted moistness as he turned hastily away. The next instant Joe was by his side on the bunk, his arm around him. Prompted by some instinctive monitor, he had done it before he thought. A week before he could not have imagined himself in such an absurd...
Стр. 164 - Run for'ard, you, Sho, an' let go ze jib. You, Kid, get all ready ze hook.' Joe found the jib-halyard and cast it off the pin, and, as the canvas fluttered down, came in hand over hand on the down haul.
Стр. 143 - Ha, ha! Dat is funny. You tell dat to ze judge; mebbe him laugh, eh?" "I say I did n't," he reiterated manfully. " I did n't know I 'd shipped along with a lot of thieves." 'Frisco Kid winced at this epithet, and had Joe been looking at him he would have seen a red flush mount to his face. "And now that I do know," he continued, " I wish to be put ashore. I don't know anything about the law, but I do know something of right and wrong ; and I 'm willing to take my chance with any judge for whatever...
Стр. 125 - s nothing," he said. " Everybody does that when they 're beginning. Now, some men forget all about the trouble they had in learning, and get mad when a greeny makes a mistake. I never do. Why, I remember — " And here he told Joe of many of the mishaps which fell to him when, as a little lad, he first went on the water, and of some of the severe punishments for the same which were measured out to him. He had passed the running end of a lanyard over the tiller-neck, and, as they talked, they sat...
Стр. 94 - Stan' from un'er!" Pete Le Maire, captain of the Dazzler and lord and master of 'Frisco Kid, threw a bundle into the cockpit and came aboard by the starboard rigging. "Come! Queeck!" he shouted to the boy who owned the bundle, and who now hesitated on the dock. It was a good fifteen feet to the deck of the sloop, and he could not reach the steel stay by which he must descend. "Now! One, two, three!
Стр. 237 - First the main portion of the wreckage was securely fastened to the for'ard bits; then, breathless and gasping, more often under the water than out, it was cut and hack at the tangle of halyards, sheets, stays, and tackles. The cockpit was taking water rapidly, and it was a race between swamping and completing the task. At last, however, everything stood clear save the lee rigging. 'Frisco Kid slashed the lanyards. The storm did the rest. The Dazzler drifted swiftly to leeward of the wreckage, till...
Стр. 116 - ... nearly capsized the Dazzler was of short duration, but it marked the rising of the wind, and soon puff after puff was shrieking down upon them out of the north. The mainsail was spilling the wind, and slapping and thrashing about till it seemed it would tear itself to pieces. The sloop was rolling wildly in the quick sea which had come up. Everything was in confusion; but even Joe's untrained eye showed him that it was an orderly confusion. He could see that 'Frisco Kid knew just what to do,...
Стр. 213 - ... once he saw a sail to leeward on the opposite tack, which luffed sharply and came about at sight of him. But the darkness favored, and he heard no more of it— perhaps because he worked into the wind closer by a point, and held on his way with a rebellious shaking after-leech. Shortly after dawn the boys were called and came sleepily on deck. The day had broken cold and gray, while the wind had attained half a gale. Joe noted with astonishment the white tents of the quarantine station on Angel...
Стр. 116 - Frisco Kid knew just what to do, and just how to do it. As he watched him he learned a lesson, the lack of which has made failures of the lives of many men — knowledge of one's own capacities. ' Frisco Kid knew what he was able to do, and because of this he had confidence in himself. He was cool and self-possessed, working hurriedly but not carelessly. There was no bungling. Every reef-point was drawn down to stay.- Other accidents might occur, but the next squall, or the next forty squalls, would...
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