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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Turtles of Tasman, by Jack London
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Title: The Turtles of Tasman
Author: Jack London
Release Date: July 10, 2005 [EBook #16257]
Language: English
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THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
BY
JACK LONDON
AUTHOR OF THE CALL OF THE WILD, TERRY, ADVENTURE, ETC.
NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS
Published by Arrangement with The Macmillan Company
Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1916. Reprinted October,
November, 1916; February, 1917, December, 1919.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
THE ETERNITY OF FORMS
TOLD IN THE DROOLING WARD
THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY
THE PRODIGAL FATHER
THE FIRST POET
FINIS
THE END OF THE STORY
THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
I
Law, order, and restraint had carved Frederick Travers' face. It was the
strong, firm face of one used to power and who had used power with
wisdom and discretion. Clean living had made the healthy skin, and the
lines graved in it were honest lines. Hard and devoted work had left its
wholesome handiwork, that was all. Every feature of the man told the
same story, from the clear blue of the eyes to the full head of hair,
light brown, touched with grey, and smoothly parted and drawn straight
across above the strong-domed forehead. He was a seriously groomed man,
and the light summer business suit no more than befitted his alert
years, while it did not shout aloud that its possessor was likewise the
possessor of numerous millions of dollars and property.
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