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Title: A Daughter of the Snows
Author: Jack London
Release Date: January 10, 2005 [eBook #14654]
Language: English
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A DAUGHTER OF THE SNOWS
by
JACK LONDON
Author of _The Son of The Wolf_, _The Call of the Wild_,
_The People of the Abyss_, etc.
With Illustrations by Frederick C. Yohn
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers--New York
1902
CHAPTER I
"All ready, Miss Welse, though I'm sorry we can't spare one of the
steamer's boats."
Frona Welse arose with alacrity and came to the first officer's side.
"We're so busy," he explained, "and gold-rushers are such perishable
freight, at least--"
"I understand," she interrupted, "and I, too, am behaving as though I
were perishable. And I am sorry for the trouble I am giving you,
but--but--" She turned quickly and pointed to the shore. "Do you
see that big log-house? Between the clump of pines and the river? I
was born there.
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