UNDER THE DECK AWNINGS by JACK LONDON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 16 January 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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In "Under the Deck Awnings" from Jack London, a group of people cruising the South Pacific pause for a story from one of the men sitting on deck.
He recalls a similar party on which was a beautiful but spoiled and deadly woman, who decided to tempt a group of young native divers with coins she would throw overboard.
After they spotted a shark and left the water, she continued the game.
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| 0:00.0 | The Oh, Welcome to 1,001 Classic Short Stories and Tales. |
| 0:35.0 | In this tense Jack London Short Story from the South Pacific, a group of men relaxing on a deck of a ship |
| 0:41.0 | are told a story of a |
| 0:45.0 | big-of-a-beautiful but deadly young woman who tries to lure a young island boy to his death for her own thrill. |
| 0:50.0 | And now, under the deck awnings by Jack London. |
| 0:58.0 | Can any man, a gentleman, I mean, call a woman, a pig? The little man flung this challenge forth to the whole group, |
| 1:06.0 | then leaned back in his deck chair, |
| 1:08.0 | sipping lemonade with an air commingled of certitude |
| 1:11.0 | and watchful belligerents. |
| 1:14.3 | Nobody made answer. |
| 1:16.6 | They were used to the little man and his sudden passions |
| 1:19.7 | at high allowations. |
| 1:22.3 | I repeat, it was in my presence that he said a certain lady whom |
| 1:26.4 | none of you knows was a pig. He did not say swine he grossly said that she was a pig and I hold that no man who is a man could |
| 1:37.2 | possibly make such a remark about any woman. |
| 1:41.6 | Dr Dawson puffed stolidly at his black pipe. Matthews, with knees hunched up and |
| 1:47.7 | clasped, was absorbed in the flight of a gooney. Sweet, finishing his Scotch and soda, was questing about with his eyes for a deck steward. |
| 1:57.0 | I ask you, Mr Trellower, can any man call any woman a pig? |
| 2:05.7 | Trellower, who happened to be sitting next to him, |
| 2:08.3 | was startled by the abruptness of the attack |
| 2:11.2 | and wondered what grounds he had ever given the little man to believe that he |
| 2:14.8 | could call a woman a pig. |
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