The Sea-wolf
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III Wolf Larsen ceased swearing as suddenly as he had begun. He relighted his cigar and glanced around. His eyes chanced upon the cook. " Well, Cooky ?" he began, with a suaveness that was cold and of...
MorePurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III Wolf Larsen ceased swearing as suddenly as he had begun. He relighted his cigar and glanced around. His eyes chanced upon the cook. " Well, Cooky ?" he began, with a suaveness that was cold and of the temper of steel. " Yes, sir," the cook eagerly interpolated, with appeasing and apologetic servility. " Don't you think you've stretched that neck of yours jus- about enough ? It's unhealthy, you know. The mate's gone, so I can't afford to lose you too. You must be very, very careful of your health, Cooky. Understand ?" His last word, in striking contrast with the smoothness of his previous utterance, snapped like the lash of a whip. The cook quailed under it. " Yes, sir," was the meek reply, as the offending head disappeared into the galley. At this sweeping rebuke, which the cook had only pointed, the rest of the crew became uninterested and fel1 to work at one task or another. A number of men, however, who were lounging about a companionway between tnt galley and the hatch, and who did not seem to be sailors continued talking in low tones with one another. These, I afterward learned, were the hunters, the men who shot the seals, and a very superior breed to common sailor folk. " Johansen ! " Wolf Larsen called out . A sailor steppe forward obediently. " Get your palm and needle and sewthe beggar up. You'll find some old canvas in the sail- locker. Make it do." " What'll I put on his feet, sir ?" the man asked, after the customary "Ay, ay, sir." " We'll see to that," Wolf Larsen answered, and elevated his voice in a call of " Cooky!" Thomas Mugridge popped out of his galley like a jack- in-the-box. " Go below and fill a sack with coal." " Any of you fellows got a Bible or prayer-book ? " was the captain's next demand, this time of ...
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