Category: Short Stories
The Strife of the Sea
Copyright, 1901 and 1902, by HARPER & BROS. Copyright, 1902 and 1903, by THE SUCCESS CO. Copyright, 1902 and 1903, by THE INDEPENDENT. Copyright, 1903, by THE BUTTERICK PUB. CO. (LTD.)
Chapters
9. Part 9
Away they went straight ahead. The bonita fell away sullenly from the solid ranks, and in half an hour the last albicore had gone through the gap in close column, leaving the se...
2. Part 2The day was bright and the sunshine glistened upon the smooth water of Cumberland Sound. The sand beach glared in the fierce rays and the heat was stifling. What little breeze t...
6. Part 6He was not an old turtle. Some of his fellows had lived for several centuries and were old before he was born. But he had grown very large since the day he first saw the sun shi...
7. Part 7The albatross soon sighted the piece of beef and circled slowly toward it. Then as it floated in clear view he settled upon the surface of the sea and paddled up to it and gave...
3. Part 3The breeze making from the sea sent the spray over the boats in sheets, but they held on. The devil was heading for the bar under full speed, for the iron had pricked him sorely...
11. Part 11His head was ugly and flat-looking, and his mouth a hideous cavern, full of slabs of whalebone, from which depended masses of horrible hair to act as a sieve for the whale-food...
4. Part 4The first night the keeper watched for him. It was very dark, and the cold north wind soughed through the pines, and the surf thundered. The cold made the keeper’s teeth chatter...
5. Part 5One day his mate waddled quickly from the nest. Where before there had been two shining white eggs, two little yellow puff-balls lay on the stones, and they made a noise that sh...
10. Part 10Then a huge dark shadow will rise slowly out of the blue invisibility below, and all the smaller fish will disappear. The shadow will take form, and will be that of an old shark...
8. Part 8He came from a race of giants. His ancestors had held sway over the great breadth of the Pacific for many centuries, and were the lords of the South Sea. When he first saw the l...
1. Part 1Copyright, 1901 and 1902, by HARPER & BROS. Copyright, 1902 and 1903, by THE SUCCESS CO. Copyright, 1902 and 1903, by THE INDEPENDENT. Copyright, 1903, by THE BUTTERICK PUB. CO....
12. Part 12The dull boom of the shot told the old whale what had happened, before he came up to look. When he arrived within a hundred fathoms, the mother was in her last agony, and her li...