"Does she look like this?" he asked, turning it that the other might see. Pete luffed straight into it, and the "Dazzler" mounted the steep slope with a rush. Pete clung on, working inboard every time he emerged, till he dropped into the cockpit. DUTCH COURAGE AND OTHER STORIES By Jack London 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 THE ROAD By Jack London CONTENTS Confession Holding Her Down Pictures "Pinched" The Pen Hoboes That Pass in the Night Road-Kids and Gay-Cats Two Thousand Stiffs Bulls THE TURTLES OF TASMAN By Jack London CONTENTS BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN THE ETERNITY OF FORMS TOLD IN THE DROOLING WARD THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY THE PRODIGAL FATHER THE FIRST POET FINIS THE END OF THE STORY STORIES OF SHIPS AND THE SEA By Jack London CONTENTS Page Chris Farrington: Able Seaman 5 Typhoon Off the Coast of Japan 17 The Lost Poacher 25 The Banks of the Sacramento 40 In Yeddo Bay 54 THEFT A Play In Four Acts By Jack London CONTENTS ACTORS' DESCRIPTION OF CHARACTERS ACT I A Room in the House of Senator Chalmers ACT II Rooms of Howard Knox at Hotel Waltham ACT III A Room in the Washington House of Anthony Starkweather ACT IV Same as Act I THE SCARLET PLAGUE By Jack London Illustrated By Gordon Grant CONTENTS THE SCARLET PLAGUE I II III IV V VI ILLUSTRATIONS Slowly he Pulled the Bowstring Taut 020 Rabbit is Good, Very Good 026 This Attracted the Old Man's Nostrils 033 With a Sling Such As David Carried 036 I Was a Professor of English Literature 054 Sixty Years Since I Have Seen a Piece of Soap. 059 Granser, You Make Me Sick With Your Gabble 071 But This New Plague Was Quicker 078 The Telephone Bell Rang 088 Fled from the City by Millions 092 I Heard Sounds of Rioting and Of Pistol Shots 098 Look at Yourself in the Mirror 100 Now in the Time of Calamity They Turned on Us 108 He Told Me he Had Been Cruelly Beaten 112 We Thrust Her Forth from the Building 121 She Fell Like a Plummet to the Earth 132 With My Horse and Dogs And Pony, I Set out 144 Everybody Called Him Chauffeur 149 Vesta the One Woman 150 There She Was, Boiling Fish-chowder 153 And Her the Chauffeur Beat and Made his Slave 158 Found Evidences of a Recently Occupied Camp 169 I Have Stored Many Books in a Cave 179 A SON OF THE SUN BY JACK LONDON CONTENTS Chapter One A SON OF THE SUN I II III IV V VI Chapter Two THE PROUD GOAT OF ALOYSIUS PANKBURN I II III IV V VI VII Chapter Three THE DEVILS OF FUATINO I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX Chapter Four THE JOKERS OF NEW GIBBON I II III IV Chapter Five A LITTLE ACCOUNT WITH SWITHIN HALL I II III IV V VI VII VIII Chapter Six A GOBOTO NIGHT I II Chapter Seven THE FEATHERS OF THE SUN I II III III IV V VI VII Chapter Eight THE PEARLS OF PARLAY I II III IV V THE ACORN-PLANTER By Jack London CONTENTS ARGUMENT PROLOGUE ACT I. ACT II. EPILOGUE TALES OF THE FISH PATROL By Jack London CONTENTS I White and Yellow 9 II The King of the Greeks 39 III A Raid on the...