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...me a cigar!” T wo minutes afterwards the ship blew up with a glorious detonation. 9 Fables III – THE TWO MATCHES. ONE DAY THERE WAS a traveller in th... ...p,” said the man, “for now I think you have come far enough; and your quest is ended, and my candle is out.” Now when the morning came, the man gave h... ...ead; and he went away, for it seemed a small affair to him. All that day he rode, and his mind was quiet, and the desire of the chase allayed. “How if... ...y the side of the way. Now, in the light of each other, all the touchstones lost their hue and fire, and withered like stars at morning; but in the li... ...e was the fairest King’s daughter between two seas; her hair was like spun gold, and her eyes like pools in a river; and the King gave her a castle up... ...Here she dwelt and grew up, and had no care for the morrow, and no power upon the hour, after the manner of simple men. It befell that she walked one ... ...was autumn, and the wind blew from the place of rains; and upon the one hand of her the sea beat, and upon the other the dead leaves ran. This was the...

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...not written to you before now, you will be surprised to heare that we are in California, and that poor Thomas” (another brother, of fifteen) “is dead.... .... We went along very well till we got within six or seven hun- dred miles of California, when the Indians attacked us. We found places where they had ... ... traveld with them till we arrived at the settlements; and know I am safe in California, and got to good home, and going to school. “Jerry is working ... ...k and rear with never-dying surf. In front of the town, the long line of sea-beach trends north and north-west, and then westward to enclose the bay. ... ...r the coast and the adjacent coun- try like smoke above a battle. These long beaches are enticing to the idle man. It would be hard to find a walk mor... ... uproar, that runs, waxing and waning, up and down the long key-board of the beach. The foam of these great ruins mounts in an instant to the ridge of... ... pictures, and snatches of verse in the vein of Exegi Monumentum; shells and pebbles, artfully contrasted and conjoined, had been his medium; and I li...

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... pitched neck-and-crop from twenty days of the high seas into the whirl of California, deprived of any guid- ance, and left to draw my own conclusions... ...f Bret Harte. That was true. “Well,” said the reporter, “Bret Harte claims California, but California don’t claim Bret Harte. He’s been so long in 11... ...quences), and you pull up somewhere at the back of the city on the Pacific beach. Originally the cliffs and their ap- proaches must have been pretty, ... ... and here the thunder of the traffic is most overwhelming. I watched Young California, and saw that it was, at least, expensively dressed, cheerful in... ...leven and one half pounds of fighting salmon! We danced a war-dance on the pebbles, and California caught me round the waist in a hug that went near t... ...unteered to take the rod from my hands. I would rather have died among the pebbles than surren- der my right to play and land a salmon, weight unknown... ... fall off a log fence, break the overhanging bank, and clatter down to the pebbles, all sand and landing-net, and I dropped on a log to rest for a mom... ...ngled Banner will disembark men from flat-bottomed boats on a conve- nient beach for the purpose of being shot down by local militia. In his own simpl...

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...glish seamen call “shot soup”— great round peas, polishing themselves like pebbles by roll- ing about in tepid water. It was afterward told me, that a... ...the two whale- boats, which had been found turned up like tortoises on the beach. Noon came, and nothing more was heard from the desert- ers. Meanwhil... ...min assured them, with an oath, that foot of theirs should never touch the beach. Toward sunset a crowd was seen coming down to the wa- ter. In advanc... ...ast, borne on what seemed a long flake of foam, the tiny craft shot up the beach amid a shower of sparkles. Not a soul was there. Leaving one of their... ...ar the prospect. All round the water extends a wide, smooth beach of mixed pebbles and fragments of coral. This forms the thoroughfare of the village;... ...ushes; lying on a tree smoking; or, more fre- quently still, gambling with pebbles; though, a little tobacco excepted, what they gambled for at their ... ...Spanish hunters, men regularly trained to their calling upon the plains of California, that the work of slaughter was fairly begun. The Spaniards were... ...I made san- dals from a bullock’s hide, such as are worn by the Indians in California. They are made in a minute; the sole, rudely fash- ioned to the ...

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...ub- ergines, foreign apples—apples from the State of New York, apples from California, apples from Canada, apples from New Zealand, “pretty lookin’ fr... ...d voice, you know, and mine’s all right. I never see a chap singing on the beach yet that I couldn’t ‘ave sung into a cocked hat. And we both know how... ...esert Dervishes.” They bowed profoundly. The few scattered groups upon the beach regarded them with horror for the most part, but some of the children... ...nd young people were interested and drew nearer. “There ain’t a bob on the beach,” said Grubb in an undertone, and the Desert Dervishes plied their bi... ...nges, two unopened tins of corned beef and one opened, and five large tins California peaches. He jotted it down on a piece of paper “‘ Ain’t much sol... ...found himself wishing for a drink. He settled that for a time by putting a pebble in his mouth. And then the sleep craving returned. It became clear t...

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...her had been a veterinary surgeon who had kept a livery stable near by, on California Street, and Marcus’s knowledge of the dis- eases of domestic ani... ...p. They walked for upwards of five hours that afternoon, out the length of California Street, and across the Presidio Reservation to the Golden Gate. ... ...been tided over some- how. Once more McTeague felt himself saved. “T o der beach!” shouted Mr. Sieppe. They had checked their baskets at the peanut st... ...ings and on the paral- lel bars. They even found a huge round stone on the beach and “put the shot” for a while. As long as it was a ques- tion of agi... ... the City Hall and was stamped in one corner with the seal of the State of California, very official; the form and file numbers superscribed. McT eagu... ... out suddenly upon the full sweep of the Pacific. Then he would follow the beach down to a certain point of rocks that he knew. Here he would turn inl... ...een at half a day’s jour- ney distant. In that vast silence the click of a pebble was as audible as a pistol-shot. And yet there was nothing, nothing....

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...August with the Gillows at Newport … and the only alternative was to go to California with the Bockheimers, whom she had hitherto refused even to dine... ... to spend next summer with her at Newport …. If I don’t, I’ve got to go to California with the Bockheimers- so good-bye.” Suddenly in tears, she was o... ...he vision of indo- lent summer days on the lagoon, of flaming hours on the beach of the Lido, and evenings of music and dreams on their broad balcony ... ...ured a little, and drew herself up more defiantly than usual as she sent a pebble skimming across the dying ripples at their feet. “Y ou’ll be a lot c...

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...ad, or lane, from the gate to the great house, was richly paved with white pebbles from the beach, and, in its course, formed a complete circle around... ... the gate to the great house, was richly paved with white pebbles from the beach, and, in its course, formed a complete circle around the beautiful la... ...e engaged in all manner of enterprises common to other men—digging gold in California, captur- ing the whale in the Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle ...

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...nes in muddy and shallow water; and I found in its stomach sev- eral small pebbles, as in the gizzard of a bird. This slug, when disturbed, emits a ve... ...) Dr. Priestly has described some imper- fect siliceous tubes and a melted pebble of quartz, found in digging into the ground, under a tree, where a m... ...markable from be- ing composed of a firmly-cemented conglomerate of pumice pebbles, which must have travelled more than four hundred miles, from the A... ...nine great quadrupeds, and many detached bones, were found embedded on the beach, within the space of about 200 yards square. It is a remarkable circu... ... with their edges blunted from attrition, and mixed with gravel on the sea-beach. Each crystal was about five lines in diameter, and from an inch to a... ...een expected. It flows over a bed of pebbles, like those which compose the beach and the surrounding plains. It runs in a wind- ing course through val... ...stern coast, as Dr. Hooker tells me, it extends to the R. San Francisco in California, and perhaps even to Kamtschatka. We thus have an immense range ...

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...strip between the An Odyssey of the North 69 rim of the forest and the yellow beach where our kayaks lay. We were not many, and the world was very sm... ...slands, and did not mind. “I was different from my people. In the sands of the beach were the crooked timbers and wave warped planks of a boat such as... ... These two men came from out of the sea in the boat which lay in pieces on the beach. And they were white like you, and weak as the little children wh... ...ublication in Brandur Magazine, Oct., 1902. Second magazine publication in The California Review, V ol. 2, No. 6, pp. 376 83, 1904. 118 JACK LONDON B... ...to expedite matters, he rested the pan and with his fingers raked out the large pebbles and pieces of rock. The contents of the pan diminished rapidly ... ...e had undergone. He also babbled incoherently of his mother, of sunny Southern California, and a home among the orange groves and flowers. The days wer... ...al great events in his life. One of these had been when his mother bought some California prunes. Two others had been the two times when she cooked cu...

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...es of the Organ.........................................121 Facing West from California’s Shores ....................................................1... ...the Conquer’d Fame..137 We Two Boys Together Clinging.......138 A Promise to California.....................138 Here the Frailest Leaves of Me........... .......................270 Aboard at a Ship’s Helm...................271 On the Beach at Night.......................272 The World below the Brine.......... ........................272 The World below the Brine................273 On the Beach at Night Alone............274 Song for All Seas, All Ships............ ...savannas, Or a soldier camp’d or carrying my knapsack and gun, or a miner in California, Or rude in my home in Dakota’s woods, my diet meat, my drink ... ...ter there, yet stay stock still in your room. Dancing and laughing along the beach came the twenty ninth bather, The rest did not see her, but she saw... ...ss, animals and birds, the private untrimm’d bank, the primitive apples, the pebble stones, Beautiful dripping fragments, the negligent list of one af... ...e, souvenirs of earliest summer, Gather the welcome signs, (as children with pebbles or stringing shells,) Put in April and May, the hylas croaking in...

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... and support him? Why should he work for his living here, or go to dig gold in California, when he is so soon to be made happy, at monthly intervals, ... ...ged footsteps to catch the great snowflakes ere they fell. Perceiving a flock of beach birds that fed and fluttered along the shore, the naughty child pi... ...ed and fluttered along the shore, the naughty child picked up her apron full of pebbles, and, creeping from rock to rock after these small sea fowl, di... ...little gray bird, with a white breast, Pearl was almost sure had been hit by a pebble, and fluttered away with a broken wing. But then the elf child si... ...s; while, in its swifter and livelier passages there appeared a channel way of pebbles, and brown, sparkling sand. Letting the eyes follow along the c...

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...they can get. Like shipwrecked sailors, they put on what they can find on the beach, and at a little distance, whether of space or time, laugh at each ... ...oth rounded white stones like paving stones, excepting one or two short sand beaches, and is so steep that in many places a single leap will carry you... ...ls and cliffs around are its overhanging brows. Standing on the smooth sandy beach at the east end of the pond, in a calm September afternoon, when a ... ... first you would say that they were formed by the action of the waves, like a pebble; yet the smallest are made of equally coarse materials, half an in... ... chiefly; but a goose is a goose still, dress it as you will. They tell me of California and Texas, of England and the Indies, of the Hon. Conclusion ...

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... expended a great deal of familiar ridicule on his project of a journey to California. Then, suddenly getting up and looking at him a moment— “I know ... ...s to-morrow?” 114 Confidence CHAPTER XVIII B ernard left then and went to California; but when he arrived there he asked himself why he had come, and... ...y for some time, and he strove to occupy him- self, to take an interest in Californian problems. Bernard, however, was neither an economist nor a catt... ...hly developed amphibious habits, which sat gossiping all day upon the warm pebbles, occasionally dipping into the sea and drying itself in the sun, wi... ... self. When he had dressed himself again, Bernard stretched himself on the beach, feeling happier than he had done in a long time, and pulled his hat ... ...hings on emerging from a nap. The same people were sitting near him on the beach—the same, and yet not quite the same. He found himself noticing a per... ...e of perusal, seemed to ab- stract itself from the glare and murmur of the beach. The clear shadow of her umbrella—it was lined with blue— was deep up... ...ou should n’t expect—simply on turn- ing your head—to find me lying on the pebbles at Blanquais-les-Galets. You were a great surprise to me, as well; ...

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... of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 and trees. We lay together a long time on the beach; the sea just babbled among the stones; and at one time we heard the ... ...f the sea (or ‘en rafales’ should it be? or what?). As I got down near the beach a poor woman, old- ish, and seemingly, lately at least, respectable, ... ...d right off, and heard my captors splash in the water after me as thick as pebbles when a bit of river bank has given way beneath the foot. I never he... ... R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN [COAST LINE MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA, SEPTEMBER 1879.] HERE is another curious start in my life. I am... ... of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN MONTEREY, DITTO CO., CALIFORNIA, 21ST OCTOBER [1879]. MY DEAR COL VIN, – Although you have absol... ...The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA, SEPTEMBER 1879. MY DEAR COLVIN, – I received your letter with d... ...t that, but like a saint and martyr, or a kind of macerated clergyman with pebbles in his boots, a pillared Simeon, I’m damned if I know what, but, ma...

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... thirty, or a hundred thousand at his banker’s, or if all Yorkshire or all California were his to manage or to sell, he would still be morally pennile... ...o Sa- moa a man from Honolulu; he, in a public-house on the 55 Lay Morals beach, volunteered the statement that Damien had ‘con- tracted the disease ... ...lu– miserable, leering crea- ture– communicated the tale to a rude knot of beach-comb- ing drinkers in a public-house, where (I will so far agree with... ...isap pointment. You do not often find the youthful Demosthenes chewing his pebbles in the same room with you; or, even if you do, you will probably th... ...across a little narrow fell, ran some ten feet very smoothly over a bed of pebbles, then getting wind, as it were, of another shelf of rock which barr... ...k others from the mountains. It was now come to the third day; outside the pebbles flew like hail, and the face 178 Robert Louis Stevenson of the riv...