NEGORE, THE COWARD by JACK LONDON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 24 April 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales. This is your host to |
| 0:34.2 | storyteller John Hagdorn. Today one of Jack London's most famous short |
| 0:38.4 | stories, Nagor the coward. The story of a man who has wrongly been given the reputation of a coward and sets out to prove that everyone is wrong. |
| 0:47.0 | And now, Nagor the coward, by Jack London. |
| 0:51.0 | He had followed the trail of his fleeing people for 11 days and his pursuit had been in itself a flight. |
| 0:57.0 | For behind him he knew full well with the dreaded Russians, toiling through the swampy lowlands and over the steep divides bent on no less than the |
| 1:05.5 | extermination of all his people. |
| 1:09.0 | He was traveling light, a rabbit skin sleeping robe, a muzzle-loading loading rifle and a few pounds of sun-dried salmon constituted his outfit |
| 1:17.7 | He would have marveled that a whole people women and children and aged could travel so swiftly had he not known the terror that drove them on. |
| 1:27.0 | It was in the old days of the Russian occupancy of Alaska when the 19th century had run but half its course that Nagor fled |
| 1:35.2 | after his fleeing tribe and came upon it this summer night by the headwaters of |
| 1:39.1 | the Pilat. Though near the midnight hour it was bright day as he passed through the weary camp. |
| 1:45.4 | Many saw him, all knew him, but few and cold were the greetings he received. |
| 1:51.5 | Nagor, the coward, he heard Ilia, a young woman laugh, and Sune, his sister's daughter, laughed |
| 1:58.4 | with her. |
| 2:00.6 | Black anger aided his heart, but he gave no sign, threading his way among the campfires until he came to one where sat an old man. |
| 2:08.0 | A young woman was needy with skillful fingers the tired muscles of his legs. |
| 2:12.0 | He raised a sightless face and listened intently as |
| 2:15.3 | Nagor's foot crackled a dead twig. |
| 2:18.0 | Who comes? he queried in a thin tremulous voice |
| 2:27.8 | Negor said the young woman scarcely looking up from her task |
| 2:31.1 | Negor's face was expressionless |
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