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THE SEA WOLF JACK LONDON CHAPTER 21 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 21 The chagrin Wolf Larsen felt from being ignored by Maud Brewster and me in the conversation at table had to express itself in some fashion and it fell to Thomas Mugridge to be the victim. He had not mended his ways nor his shirt though the latter he contended he had changed. The garment itself did not bear out the assertion nor did the accumulations of grease on stove and pot and pan attest a general cleanliness. I ve given you warning Cooky Wolf Larsen said and now you ve got to take your medicine. Mugridge s face turned white under its sooty veneer and when Wolf Larsen called for a rope and a couple of men the miserable Cockney fled wildly out of the galley and dodged and ducked about the deck with the grinning crew in pursuit. Few things could have been more to their liking than to give him a tow over the side for to the forecastle he had sent messes and concoctions of the vilest order. Conditions favoured the undertaking. The Ghost was slipping through the water at no more than three miles an hour and the sea was fairly calm. But Mugridge had little stomach for a dip in it. Possibly he had seen men towed before. Besides the water was frightfully cold and his was anything but a rugged constitution. As usual the watches below and the hunters turned out for what promised sport. Mugridge seemed to be in rabid fear of the water and he exhibited a nimbleness and speed we did not dream he possessed. Cornered in the right-angle of the poop and galley he sprang like a cat to the top of the cabin and ran aft. But his pursuers forestalling him he doubled back across the cabin passed over the galley and gained the deck by means of the steerage- scuttle. Straight forward he raced the boat-puller Harrison at his heels and gaining on him. But Mugridge leaping suddenly caught the jib-boom-lift. It happened in an instant. Holding his weight by his arms and in mid-air doubling his body at the hips he let fly with both feet. The oncoming .
