“Age is never so old as youth would measure it.”
Jack London book The Wit of Porportuk
"The Wit of Porportuk" in The Best Short Stories of Jack London (1962) ISBN 0-449-30053-6
Quotes from bookThe Wit of Porportuk
"The Wit of Porportuk" is a short story written by Jack London ..".El-Soo had been a Mission girl. Her mother had died when she was very small, and Sister Alberta had plucked El-Soo as a brand from the burning, one summer day, and carried her away to Holy Cross Mission and dedicated her to God. El-Soo was a full-blooded Indian, yet she exceeded all the half-breed and quarter-breed girls. Never had the good sisters dealt with a girl so adaptable and at the same time so spirited"
