HOBOES THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT by JACK LONDON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 15 March 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Jack London traveled the rails as a hoboe in the late 1890's and recorded his adventures in a collection of stories called "Road"- which is where this story comes from. Here he describes the life, which was extremely hard, especially in the winter, and gives us an inside look at the dangers that existed for migrants.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 classic short stories and tales and the Jack London |
| 0:35.6 | autobiography Short Story Hobos that Pass in the Night. |
| 0:40.6 | This story is part of London's autobiographical memoir called The Road, which was first published in 1907, |
| 0:47.0 | and gives London's account of his experiences as a Hobo in the 1890s, |
| 0:52.0 | during the worst economic depression that the US had experienced up to that time. |
| 0:57.0 | He describes his experiences hopping freight trains |
| 1:00.0 | and describes the hobo life and ways in a manner that makes you feel you're there. |
| 1:05.0 | In fact, you can almost hear the sound of the rails beneath you as the train moves on into the night. |
| 1:12.0 | And now, Jack London and Hobos that pass in the night. |
| 1:20.3 | In the course of my tramping, I hundreds of hobos whom I hailed or who hailed me and with whom I waited at water tanks, boiled up, cooked mulligans, battered the drag or privates, and beat trains, and who passed and were never seen again. |
| 1:38.7 | On the other hand, there were hobos who passed and repassed with amazing frequency, and others still who passed like |
| 1:46.3 | ghosts close at hand, unseen, and never seen. |
| 1:52.4 | It was one of the latter that I chased clear across Canada over 3,000 miles of railroad and never |
| 1:58.0 | once that I lay eyes on him. His, Monica, was Sky Sale Jack. I first ran into it at Montreal. |
| 2:07.0 | Card for the Jackknife was the Sky Sale yard of a ship. |
| 2:11.0 | It was perfectly executed. Under it was |
| 2:14.4 | Sky Sail Jack. Above it was B. W. 9. 1594. This latter conveyed the information that he had passed through Montreal bound west on October 15, |
| 2:28.0 | 1894. He had one day the start of me. |
| 2:33.0 | Saylor Jack was my Monica at that particular time, |
| 2:36.0 | and promptly I carved it alongside of his, |
| 2:39.0 | along with the date and the information that I too was bound west. |
| 2:43.4 | I had misfortune in getting over the next hundred miles |
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