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1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

IN YEDDO BAY by JACK LONDON

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

4.21.1K Ratings

🗓️ 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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