Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London


At the end of three years, nearly sixteen, hard of body, weighing a
hundred and thirty pounds, he judged it time to go home and open the
books. So he took his first long voyage, signing on as boy on a
windjammer bound around the Horn from the Delaware Breakwater to San
Francisco. It was a hard voyage, of one hundred and eighty days, but
at the end he weighed ten pounds the more for having made it.


Mrs. Summerstone screamed when he walked in on her, and Ah Sing had to
be called from the kitchen to identify him. Mrs. Summerstone screamed
a second time. It was when she shook hands with him and lacerated her
tender skin in the fisty grip of his rope-calloused palms.

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