The Jacket (Star-Rover)

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Jack London. The Jacket (Star-Rover)

CHAPTER I

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CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

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CHAPTER IV

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CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

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CHAPTER XIII

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CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII

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CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XIX

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CHAPTER XX

CHAPTER XXI

CHAPTER XXII

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Wordsworth knew. He was neither seer nor prophet, but just ordinary man like you or any man. What he knew, you know, any man knows. But he most aptly stated it in his passage that begins “Not in utter nakedness, not in entire forgetfulness…”

Ah, truly, shades of the prison-house close about us, the new-born things, and all too soon do we forget. And yet, when we were new-born we did remember other times and places. We, helpless infants in arms or creeping quadruped-like on the floor, dreamed our dreams of air-flight. Yes; and we endured the torment and torture of nightmare fears of dim and monstrous things. We new-born infants, without experience, were born with fear, with memory of fear; and memory is experience.

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“I planted it,” he lied-for he was compelled to lie because, being merely tobacco in small packages, it was long since distributed among the convicts along the customary channels.

“Very well,” said Captain Jamie, getting himself in hand. “Lead me to it at once.”

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