Tales of the Fish Patrol E-Book

Jack London

• Herausgeber: SoTo
• Kategorie: Abenteuer, Thriller, Horror
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

With the 7 Tales written by Jack London:  WHITE AND YELLOW - THE KING OF THE GREEKS - A RAID ON THE OYSTER PIRATES - THE SIEGE OF THE „LANCASHIRE QUEEN“ - CHARLEY‘S COUP - DEMETRIOS CONTOS - YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF

Leseprobe

TALES OF THE FISH PATROL

BY

JACK LONDON

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE VARIAN

Table of Contents

Titel

WHITE AND YELLOW

THE KING OF THE GREEKS

A RAID ON THE OYSTER PIRATES

THE SIEGE OF THE "LANCASHIRE QUEEN"

CHARLEY'S COUP

DEMETRIOS CONTOS

YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF

Impressum

I

WHITE AND YELLOW

San Francisco Bay is so large that often its storms are more disastrous to ocean-going craft than is the ocean itself in its violent moments. The waters of the bay contain all manner of fish, wherefore its surface is ploughed by the keels of all manner of fishing boats manned by all manner of fishermen. To protect the fish from this motley floating population many wise laws have been passed, and there is a fish patrol to see that these laws are enforced. Exciting times are the lot of the fish patrol: in its history more than one dead patrolman has marked defeat, and more often dead fishermen across their illegal nets have marked success.

Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp-catchers. It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast armies till it reaches fresh water, when it turns about and crawls back again to the salt. And where the tide ebbs and flows, the Chinese sink great bag-nets to the bottom, with gaping mouths, into which the shrimp crawls and from which it is transferred to the boiling-pot. This in itself would not be bad, were it not for the small mesh of the nets, so small that the tiniest fishes, little new-hatched things not a quarter of an inch long, cannot pass through. The beautiful beaches of Points Pedro and Pablo, where are the shrimp-catchers villages, are made fearful by the stench from myriads of decaying fish, and against this wasteful destruction it has ever been the duty of the fish patrol to act.