A Son of the Sun by Jack London
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Title: A Son Of The Sun
Author: Jack London
Release Date: June 29, 2007 [EBook #21971]
Language: English
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A SON OF THE SUN
BY JACK LONDON
1912
CONTENTS
I. A Son of the Sun
II. The Proud Goat of Aloysius Pankburn
III. The Devils of Fuatino
IV. The Jokers of New Gibbon
V. A Little Account With Swithin Hall
VI. A Goboto Night
VII. The Feathers of the Sun
VIII. The Peabls of Parlay
Chapter One
--A SON OF THE SUN
I
The Willi-Waw lay in the passage between the shore-reef and the outer-reef. From the latter came the low murmur of a lazy surf, but the sheltered stretch of water, not more than a hundred yards across to the white beach of pounded coral sand, was of glass-like smoothness. Narrow as was the passage, and anchored as she was in the shoalest place that gave room to swing, the Willi-Waw's chain rode up-and-down a clean hundred feet. Its course could be traced over the bottom of living coral. Like some monstrous snake, the rusty chain's slac