THAT DEAD MEN RISE UP NEVER by JACK LONDON

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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"That Dead Men Rise Up Never" by Jack London: When Jack London was 17 he signed as an able bodied seaman aboard a seal ship bound for the northern islands. He ran into trouble immediately, and dealt with it, but also got the scare of his life. This is his story. #JackLondon SUPPORT OUR SHOW MONTHLY AT PATREON Become an Assistant Producer at 1001 Stories Network ( a great resume enhancement) and support us at Patreon today! Here;s the link: https://www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork\ YOUR REVIEWS AT APPLE/ITUNES ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Catch RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 HEROES now at Apple iTunes Podcast App: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2 Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622?mt=2 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901?mt=2 ANDROID USERS- CATCH OUR SHOWS AT WWW.CASTBOX.FM SUBSCRIBE FREE THEN SHARE THANK YOU 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Classic-Short-Stories-%26-Tales-id381734?country=us 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Heroes%2C-Legends%2C-Histories-%26-Mysteries-Podcast-id1114843?country=us 1001 Stories for the Road: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Stories-For-The-Road-id1324757?country=us Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to www.1001storiesnetwork.com- our home website with Megaphone. Website For 1001 Heroes is still www.1001storiespodcast.com (we redirected that one to www.1001storiesnetwork.com) Website For 1001 Classic Short Stories is still www.1001classicshortstories.com ( we redirected that as well) Website for 1001 Stories For The Road is still www.1001storiesfortheroad (we redirected that one, too) Website for 1001 Radio Days is www.1001radiodays.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the The Welcome to another great short story from 1,001 Classic Short Stories and Tales.
0:38.0	This Jack London short story tells of his personal experiences as a 17-year-old young man just signed up to work on a ceiling ship,
0:46.0	as he encounters some very tough sailors and one very unexplainable apparition.
0:52.0	How do we know it's a true story? In his note to the editor, he makes
0:56.0	sure to tell him.
0:59.1	And now, that dead men rise up never by Jack London
1:05.5	The month in which my 17th birthday arrived I signed on before the mast on the Sophie Sutherland a three top mass schooner bound on a 17-month seal hunting cruise to the coast of Japan.
1:18.0	We sailed from San Francisco, and immediately I found confronting me, a problem of no inconsiderable proportions.
1:27.0	There were 12 men of us in the foxle, ten of whom were hardened, Terry Thumbed Sailors. Not alone was I a youth and on my first voyage, but I had for shipmates
1:36.6	men who had come through the hard school of the Merchant Service of Europe. As boys, they'd had to
1:42.2	perform their ship's duty and in addition by immemorial sea custom
1:46.8	they had had to be the slaves of the ordinary and able-bodied seaman.
1:51.2	When they became ordinary
1:52.8	seamen, they were still the slaves of the able-bodied. Thus in the foxle,
1:57.3	with the watch below, an able seaman lying in his bunk will order an ordinary seaman to fetch him his shoes or bring him a drink of water.
2:06.4	Now the ordinary seaman must be lying in his bunk.
2:10.5	He is just as tired as the able seaman, yet he must get out of his bunk and fetch and carry.
2:16.7	If he refuses, he will be beaten.
2:19.6	If perchance he is so strong that he could whip the able seaman, then all the able
2:24.4	seaman or as many as may be necessary, pitch upon the luckless devil and
2:28.8	administer the beating. My problem now becomes apparent. These hard-bit Scandinavian sailors had come
2:36.4	through a hard school. As boys they had served their mates and as able
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