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Jack London
The Story of Jees Uck
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Historia Jees Uck
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ISBN 978-83-953177-2-9
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Polska wersja językowa w tłumaczeniu anonimowym
Angielska wersja językowa zgodna z wydaniem z roku 1904
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The Story of Jees Uck
There have been renunciations and renunciations. But, in its essence, renunciation is ever the
same. And the paradox of it is, that men and women forego the dearest thing in the world for
something dearer. It was never otherwise. Thus it was when Abel brought of the firstlings of
his flock and of the fat thereof. The firstlings and the fat thereof were to him the dearest things
in the world; yet he gave them over that he might be on good terms with God. So it was with
Abraham when he prepared to offer up his son Isaac on a stone. Isaac was very dear to him; but
God, in incomprehensible ways, was yet dearer. It may be that Abraham feared the Lord. But
whether that be true or not it has since been determined by a few billion people that he loved
the Lord and desired to serve him.
And since it has been determined that love is service, and since to renounce is to serve, then
Jees Uck, who was merely a woman of a swart-skinned breed, loved with a great love. She was
unversed in history, having learned to read only the signs of weather and of game; so she had
never heard of Abel nor of Abraham; nor, having escaped the good sisters at Holy Cross, had
she been told the story of Ruth, the Moabitess, who renounced her very God for the sake of a
stranger woman from a strange land. Jees Uck had learned only one way of renouncing, and
that was with a club as the dynamic factor, in much the same manner as a dog is made to
renounce a stolen marrow-bone. Yet, when the time came, she proved herself capable of rising
to the height of the fair-faced royal races and of renouncing in right regal fashion.
So this is the story of Jees Uck, which is also the story of Neil Bonner, and Kitty Bonner, and
a couple of Neil Bonner's progeny. Jees Uck was of a swart-skinned breed, it is true, but she
was not an Indian; nor was she an Eskimo; nor even an Innuit. Going backward into mouth
tradition, there appears the figure of one Skolkz, a Toyaat Indian of the Yukon, who journeyed
down in his youth to the Great Delta where dwell the Innuits, and where he foregathered with
a woman remembered as Olillie. Now the woman Olillie had been bred from an Eskimo mother
by an Innuit man. And from Skolkz and Olillie came Halie, who was one-half Toyaat Indian,
one-quarter Innuit, and one-quarter Eskimo. And Halie was the grandmother of Jees Uck.
Now Halie, in whom three stocks had been bastardized, who cherished no prejudice against
further admixture, mated with a Russian fur trader called Shpack, also known in his time as the
Big Fat. Shpack is herein classed Russian for lack of a more adequate term; for Shpack's father,
a Slavonic convict from the Lower Provinces, had escaped from the quicksilver mines into
Northern Siberia, where he knew Zimba, who was a woman of the Deer People and who became
the mother of Shpack, who became the grandfather of Jees Uck.
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