Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London


No later than yesterday afternoon did he give me most positive proof
of his obsession. It was four o'clock, the beginning of the first
dog-watch, and he had just relieved me. So careless have we grown,
that we now stand in broad daylight at the exposed break of the poop.
Nobody shoots at us, and, occasionally, over the top of the for'ard-
house, Shorty sticks up his head and grins or makes clownish faces at
us. At such times Mr. Pike studies Shorty's features through the
telescope in an effort to find signs of starvation. Yet he admits
dolefully that Shorty is looking fleshed-up.

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