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قراءة كتاب Tales of the Fish Patrol
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TALES OF THE FISH
PATROL
BY
JACK LONDON
AUTHOR OF "THE SEA-WOLF," "PEOPLE OF THE
ABYSS," "THE CALL OF THE WILD," ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE VARIAN
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1905
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1905,
By PERRY MASON COMPANY.
Copyright, 1905,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1905. Reprinted December, 1905.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
"I put my hand to my hip pocket."
WORKS OF JACK LONDON
The Game
The Sea-Wolf
The Call of the Wild
The Children of the Frost
People of the Abyss
The Faith of Men and Other Stories
War of the Classes
The Kempton-Wace Letters
Tales of the Fish Patrol
PUBLISHED BY
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Contents
| page | ||
| I | White and Yellow | 9 |
| II | The King of the Greeks | 39 |
| III | A Raid on the Oyster Pirates | 71 |
| IV | The Siege of the "Lancashire Queen" | 103 |
| V | Charley's Coup | 139 |
| VI | Demetrios Contos | 175 |
| VII | Yellow Handkerchief | 209 |
Illustrations
TALES OF THE FISH PATROL
I
WHITE AND YELLOW
San Francisco Bay is so large that often its storms are more disastrous to ocean-going craft than is the ocean itself in its violent moments. The waters of the bay contain all manner of fish, wherefore its surface is ploughed by the keels of all manner of fishing boats manned by all manner of fishermen. To protect the fish from this motley floating population many wise laws have been passed, and there is a fish patrol to see that these laws are enforced. Exciting times are the lot of the fish patrol: in its history more than one dead patrolman has marked defeat, and more often dead fishermen across their illegal nets have marked success.
Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp-catchers. It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast armies till it reaches fresh water, when it turns about and crawls back again to the salt. And where the tide ebbs and flows, the Chinese sink great bag-nets to the bottom, with gaping mouths, into which the shrimp crawls and from which it is transferred to the boiling-pot. This in itself would not be bad, were it not for the small mesh of the nets, so small that the tiniest fishes, little new-hatched things not a quarter of an inch long, cannot pass through. The beautiful beaches of Points Pedro and Pablo, where are the shrimp-catchers villages, are made fearful by the stench from myriads of decaying fish, and against this wasteful destruction it has ever been the duty of the fish patrol to act.
When I was a youngster