CHARLIE'S COUP by JACK LONDON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 23 December 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Another great Jack London short story culled from his adventures as a fish commission warden in the Oakland CA area.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to |
| 0:30.1 | to one thousand one classic Short Stories and Tales. |
| 0:33.7 | Today, I'm getting back to one of my favorite authors, |
| 0:36.4 | Jack London, and his great short story, Charlie's Coo. |
| 0:42.3 | And now, Charlie's Coo by Jack London. |
| 0:47.0 | Perhaps our most laughable exploit on the Fish Patrol, |
| 0:50.0 | and at the same time our most dangerous one, was when we rounded in at a single hall, |
| 0:55.0 | and even score of wrathful fishermen. |
| 0:58.0 | Charlie called it a coup, |
| 1:00.0 | having heard Neil Partington use the term, |
| 1:02.0 | but I think he misunderstood the word and thought it meant |
| 1:05.8 | Coop to catch or trap. The fishermen however, |
| 1:10.4 | coo or coop, must have called it a Waterloo for it was the severest stroke ever |
| 1:15.0 | dealt them by the Fish Patrol while they had invited it by open and impotent |
| 1:19.1 | defiance of the law. During what is called the open season, the fishermen might catch as many salmon as their luck |
| 1:26.4 | allowed and their boats could hold. But there was one important restriction. From sundown Saturday night to sun up Monday morning they |
| 1:36.0 | were not permitted to set a net. This was a wise provision on the part of the Fish |
| 1:40.7 | Commission for it was necessary to give the spawning salmon some opportunity |
| 1:44.8 | to ascend the river and lay their eggs. |
| 1:48.2 | And this law, with only an occasional violation, had been obediently observed by the Greek fishermen who caught salmon for the canneries and the market. |
| 1:57.8 | One Sunday morning, Charlie received a telephone call from a friend in Collinsville, |
| 2:04.4 | who told him that the full force of fishermen was out with its nets. Charlie and I jumped into our salmon boat and |
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