Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London


Mr. Pike put one of the sail-makers at the wheel, and the steward,
relieved and starting below, was attracted to the port quarter, where
the patent log that towed astern was made fast. Margaret had
returned his knife to him, and he was carrying it in his hand when
his attention was attracted astern to our wake. Mike Cipriani and
Bill Quigley had managed to catch the lazily moving log-line and were
clinging to it. The Elsinore was moving just fast enough to keep
them on the surface instead of dragging them under. Above them and
about them circled curious and hungry albatrosses, Cape hens, and
mollyhawks. Even as I glimpsed the situation one of the big birds, a
ten-footer at least, with a ten-inch beak to the fore, dropped down
on the Italian. Releasing his hold with one hand, he struck with his
knife at the bird. Feathers flew, and the albatross, deflected by
the blow, fell clumsily into the water.

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