THE MARRIAGE OF LIT-LIT by JACK LONDON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 7 April 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In the Alaskan outback, John Fox has to bargain with a stubborn tribal chief for the hand of his daughter and finds that the chief just can't enough out of the bargain.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome to another episode from 1001 one classic short stories and tales. |
| 0:34.7 | This one a Jack London story pulled from his days in Alaska |
| 0:38.9 | where man in nature often came into serious conflict and the locals provided lots of inspiration for stories like this one. |
| 0:46.0 | And now, the Marriage of Litt Litt by Jack London. |
| 0:51.0 | When John Fox came into a country where whiskey freezes solid and may be used as a paper weight for a large part of the year, |
| 0:59.0 | he came without the ideals and illusions that usually hamper the progress of more delicately nurtured adventurers. |
| 1:06.0 | Born and reared on the frontier fringe of the United States, he took with him into Canada a primitive cast of mind and elemental simplicity and grip on things |
| 1:16.1 | as it were that ensured him immediate success in his new career. |
| 1:20.6 | From a mere servant of the Hudson Bay Company, driving a paddle with the voyagers, and carrying goods on his back across the portages, he swiftly rose to a factor ship and took charge of a trading post at Port Angeles. |
| 1:33.4 | Here, because of his elemental simplicity, |
| 1:36.0 | he took himself a native wife, and by reason of the canoebial bliss |
| 1:39.5 | that followed, he escaped the unrest and vain longings that cursed the days of more fastidious men, |
| 1:45.3 | spoil their work, and conquer them in the end. He lived contentedly. |
| 1:50.6 | It was at single purposes with the business he was set there to do and achieved a brilliant record in the service of the company. |
| 1:58.3 | About this time his wife died was claimed by her, and buried with savage circumstance in a tin trunk in the top of a tree. |
| 2:07.6 | Two sons, she had borne him, and when the company promoted him, he journeyed with them still deeper into the vastness of the northwest |
| 2:15.3 | territory to a place called Sin Rock where he took charge of a new post in a more important |
| 2:21.7 | fur field. |
| 2:23.0 | Here he spent several lonely and depressing months, |
| 2:26.0 | eminently disgusted with the unprepossessing appearance of the Indian maidens, |
| 2:30.0 | and greatly worried by his growing sons who stood in need of a mother's care. |
| 2:36.4 | It was then that his eyes chanced upon Littlet. |
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