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🗓️ 14 January 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome everyone to another episode from Jack London, as we celebrate Jack London January at 1,001 Classic Short Stories and Tales. |
0:38.0 | In this Classic Short Story, a 16-year-old American sailor finds himself in Yokohama with a lot to learn. |
0:47.0 | Somewhere along Theater Street he had lost it. |
0:52.0 | He remembered being hustled somewhat roughly on the bridge over one of the canals that crossed that busy thoroughfare. |
0:59.0 | Possibly some light-fingered Pickpocket was even then enjoying the 50-odd yen his purse had contained. |
1:06.9 | And then again he thought he might have lost it himself, just lost it carelessly. |
1:12.8 | Hopelessly, and for the 20th time, |
1:15.0 | he searched in all his pockets for the missing purse. |
1:17.9 | It was not there. |
1:19.7 | His hand lingered in his empty hip pocket, |
1:22.1 | and he woefully regarded the |
1:23.4 | voluble and vociferous restaurant keeper who insanely clamored 25 |
1:28.4 | cent you pay now 25 cent |
1:32.4 | but my purse the boy said, I'd tell you I've lost it somewhere. |
1:38.2 | Whereupon the restaurant keeper lifted his arms indignantly and shrieked, |
1:42.2 | 25 cents, 25 cents, you pay now. |
1:46.0 | Quite a crowd had collected, |
1:48.0 | and it was growing embarrassing for Alf Davis. |
1:51.0 | It was so ridiculous and petty, Alf thought, such a disturbance about nothing, and decidedly, he must be doing something, thoughts of diving wildly through that forest of legs and of striking out |
2:05.4 | at whomsoever opposed him flashed through his mind. But as though divining his purpose, |
2:11.3 | one of the waiters, a short and chunky chap with an evil-looking cast in one eye, |
2:16.0 | seized him by the arm. |
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