THE SEA WOLF JACK LONDON CHAPTER 3 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | THE SEA WOLF JACK LONDON CHAPTER 3 Wolf Larsen ceased swearing as suddenly as he had begun. He relighted his cigar and glanced around. His eyes chanced upon the cook. Well Cooky he began with a suaveness that was cold and of the temper of steel. Yes sir the cook eagerly interpolated with appeasing and apologetic servility. Don t you think you ve stretched that neck of yours just about enough It s unhealthy you know. The mate s gone so I can t afford to lose you too. You must be very very careful of your health Cooky. Understand His last word in striking contrast with the smoothness of his previous utterance snapped like the lash of a whip. The cook quailed under it. Yes sir was the meek reply as the offending head disappeared into the galley. At this sweeping rebuke which the cook had only pointed the rest of the crew became uninterested and fell to work at one task or another. A number of men however who were lounging about a companion-way between the galley and hatch and who did not seem to be sailors continued talking in low tones with one another. These I afterward learned were the hunters the men who shot the seals and a very superior breed to common sailor-folk. Johansen Wolf Larsen called out. A sailor stepped forward obediently. Get your palm and needle and sew the beggar up. You ll find some old canvas in the sail-locker. Make it do. What ll I put on his feet sir the man asked after the customary Ay ay sir. We ll see to that Wolf Larsen answered and elevated his voice in a call of Cooky Thomas Mugridge popped out of his galley like a jack-in-the-box. Go below and fill a sack with coal. Any of you fellows got a Bible or Prayer-book was the captain s next demand this time of the hunters lounging about the companion- way. They shook their heads and some one made a jocular remark which I did not catch but which raised a general laugh. Wolf Larsen made the same demand of the sailors. Bibles and Prayer-books seemed scarce articles but one of the men volunteered
