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Burning Daylight
Burning Daylight

Chapter XXVII · Chapter 27

Chapter 27 of Burning Daylight is here in full — 161 sentences across 33 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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"Of course, there's no way of telling what anybody wants from what they say."
Daylight rubbed Bob's rebellious ear with his quirt and pondered with dissatisfaction the words he had just uttered.
They did not say what he had meant them to say.
"What I'm driving at is that you say flatfooted that you won't meet me again, and you give your reasons, but how am I to know they are your real reasons?
Mebbe you just don't want to get acquainted with me, and won't say so for fear of hurting my feelings.
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Burning Daylight

Chapter XXVII · Chapter 27

Chapter 27 of Burning Daylight is here in full — 161 sentences across 33 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/32 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
"Of course, there's no way of telling what anybody wants from what they say."
Line 2
Daylight rubbed Bob's rebellious ear with his quirt and pondered with dissatisfaction the words he had just uttered.
Line 3
They did not say what he had meant them to say.
Line 4
"What I'm driving at is that you say flatfooted that you won't meet me again, and you give your reasons, but how am I to know they are your real reasons?
Line 5
Mebbe you just don't want to get acquainted with me, and won't say so for fear of hurting my feelings.

All words in this reading · 66

Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.

Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.

acquainted

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From this reading Mebbe you just don't want to get acquainted with me, and won't say so for fear of hurting my feelings.

again

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From this reading "What I'm driving at is that you say flatfooted that you won't meet me again, and you give your reasons, but how am I to know they are your real reasons?

am

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From this reading "What I'm driving at is that you say flatfooted that you won't meet me again, and you give your reasons, but how am I to know they are your real reasons?

and

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From this reading Daylight rubbed Bob's rebellious ear with his quirt and pondered with dissatisfaction the words he had just uttered.

anybody

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From this reading "Of course, there's no way of telling what anybody wants from what they say."

are

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From this reading "What I'm driving at is that you say flatfooted that you won't meet me again, and you give your reasons, but how am I to know they are your real reasons?

at

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From this reading "What I'm driving at is that you say flatfooted that you won't meet me again, and you give your reasons, but how am I to know they are your real reasons?

Bob's

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From this reading Daylight rubbed Bob's rebellious ear with his quirt and pondered with dissatisfaction the words he had just uttered.

but

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From this reading "What I'm driving at is that you say flatfooted that you won't meet me again, and you give your reasons, but how am I to know they are your real reasons?

course

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From this reading "Of course, there's no way of telling what anybody wants from what they say."

Daylight

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From this reading Daylight rubbed Bob's rebellious ear with his quirt and pondered with dissatisfaction the words he had just uttered.

did

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From this reading They did not say what he had meant them to say.

dissatisfaction

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From this reading Daylight rubbed Bob's rebellious ear with his quirt and pondered with dissatisfaction the words he had just uttered.

don't

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From this reading Mebbe you just don't want to get acquainted with me, and won't say so for fear of hurting my feelings.

driving

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From this reading "What I'm driving at is that you say flatfooted that you won't meet me again, and you give your reasons, but how am I to know they are your real reasons?

ear

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From this reading Daylight rubbed Bob's rebellious ear with his quirt and pondered with dissatisfaction the words he had just uttered.

fear

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From this reading Mebbe you just don't want to get acquainted with me, and won't say so for fear of hurting my feelings.

feelings

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From this reading Mebbe you just don't want to get acquainted with me, and won't say so for fear of hurting my feelings.

flatfooted

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From this reading "What I'm driving at is that you say flatfooted that you won't meet me again, and you give your reasons, but how am I to know they are your real reasons?

for

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From this reading Mebbe you just don't want to get acquainted with me, and won't say so for fear of hurting my feelings.

from

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From this reading "Of course, there's no way of telling what anybody wants from what they say."

get

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From this reading Mebbe you just don't want to get acquainted with me, and won't say so for fear of hurting my feelings.

give

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From this reading "What I'm driving at is that you say flatfooted that you won't meet me again, and you give your reasons, but how am I to know they are your real reasons?

had

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From this reading Daylight rubbed Bob's rebellious ear with his quirt and pondered with dissatisfaction the words he had just uttered.

he

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From this reading Daylight rubbed Bob's rebellious ear with his quirt and pondered with dissatisfaction the words he had just uttered.

his

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From this reading Daylight rubbed Bob's rebellious ear with his quirt and pondered with dissatisfaction the words he had just uttered.

how

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From this reading "What I'm driving at is that you say flatfooted that you won't meet me again, and you give your reasons, but how am I to know they are your real reasons?

hurting

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From this reading Mebbe you just don't want to get acquainted with me, and won't say so for fear of hurting my feelings.

I

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From this reading "What I'm driving at is that you say flatfooted that you won't meet me again, and you give your reasons, but how am I to know they are your real reasons?

I'm

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading "What I'm driving at is that you say flatfooted that you won't meet me again, and you give your reasons, but how am I to know they are your real reasons?

is

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From this reading "What I'm driving at is that you say flatfooted that you won't meet me again, and you give your reasons, but how am I to know they are your real reasons?

just

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Daylight rubbed Bob's rebellious ear with his quirt and pondered with dissatisfaction the words he had just uttered.

know

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading "What I'm driving at is that you say flatfooted that you won't meet me again, and you give your reasons, but how am I to know they are your real reasons?

me

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From this reading "What I'm driving at is that you say flatfooted that you won't meet me again, and you give your reasons, but how am I to know they are your real reasons?

meant

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading They did not say what he had meant them to say.

Mebbe

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From this reading Mebbe you just don't want to get acquainted with me, and won't say so for fear of hurting my feelings.

meet

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading "What I'm driving at is that you say flatfooted that you won't meet me again, and you give your reasons, but how am I to know they are your real reasons?

my

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Mebbe you just don't want to get acquainted with me, and won't say so for fear of hurting my feelings.

no

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From this reading "Of course, there's no way of telling what anybody wants from what they say."

not

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading They did not say what he had meant them to say.

Of

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From this reading "Of course, there's no way of telling what anybody wants from what they say."

pondered

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From this reading Daylight rubbed Bob's rebellious ear with his quirt and pondered with dissatisfaction the words he had just uttered.

quirt

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Daylight rubbed Bob's rebellious ear with his quirt and pondered with dissatisfaction the words he had just uttered.

real

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading "What I'm driving at is that you say flatfooted that you won't meet me again, and you give your reasons, but how am I to know they are your real reasons?

reasons

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading "What I'm driving at is that you say flatfooted that you won't meet me again, and you give your reasons, but how am I to know they are your real reasons?

rebellious

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Daylight rubbed Bob's rebellious ear with his quirt and pondered with dissatisfaction the words he had just uttered.

rubbed

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From this reading Daylight rubbed Bob's rebellious ear with his quirt and pondered with dissatisfaction the words he had just uttered.

say

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From this reading "Of course, there's no way of telling what anybody wants from what they say."

so

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From this reading Mebbe you just don't want to get acquainted with me, and won't say so for fear of hurting my feelings.

telling

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From this reading "Of course, there's no way of telling what anybody wants from what they say."

that

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From this reading "What I'm driving at is that you say flatfooted that you won't meet me again, and you give your reasons, but how am I to know they are your real reasons?

the

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Daylight rubbed Bob's rebellious ear with his quirt and pondered with dissatisfaction the words he had just uttered.

them

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading They did not say what he had meant them to say.

there's

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From this reading "Of course, there's no way of telling what anybody wants from what they say."

they

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From this reading "Of course, there's no way of telling what anybody wants from what they say."

to

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From this reading They did not say what he had meant them to say.

uttered

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From this reading Daylight rubbed Bob's rebellious ear with his quirt and pondered with dissatisfaction the words he had just uttered.

want

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Mebbe you just don't want to get acquainted with me, and won't say so for fear of hurting my feelings.

wants

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From this reading "Of course, there's no way of telling what anybody wants from what they say."

way

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From this reading "Of course, there's no way of telling what anybody wants from what they say."

what

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading "Of course, there's no way of telling what anybody wants from what they say."

with

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Daylight rubbed Bob's rebellious ear with his quirt and pondered with dissatisfaction the words he had just uttered.

won't

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading "What I'm driving at is that you say flatfooted that you won't meet me again, and you give your reasons, but how am I to know they are your real reasons?

words

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Daylight rubbed Bob's rebellious ear with his quirt and pondered with dissatisfaction the words he had just uttered.

you

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading "What I'm driving at is that you say flatfooted that you won't meet me again, and you give your reasons, but how am I to know they are your real reasons?

your

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From this reading "What I'm driving at is that you say flatfooted that you won't meet me again, and you give your reasons, but how am I to know they are your real reasons?

Chapter 27 of Burning Daylight by Jack London holds 161 sentences, grouped into 33 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

What does chapter 27 of Burning Daylight contain?

Chapter 27 holds 161 sentences of Burning Daylight, unabridged, divided into 33 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 27 of Burning Daylight by Jack London exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 161 sentences, grouped into 33 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.

How do I study chapter 27 of Burning Daylight?

Work through the 33 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 33 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.

Can chapter 27 be read aloud to me?

Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 27 can be played aloud in United States English.

Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.

Questions about reading Burning Daylight

Common questions about reading Burning Daylight by Jack London on this page, its source edition and its audio.

Is this the complete text of Burning Daylight?

Yes. All 7209 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #746 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

Which edition of Burning Daylight is used?

Project Gutenberg eBook #746, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does Burning Daylight take to read?

About 600 minutes of reading across 1442 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

How to read Burning Daylight section by section

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  1. Open a chapter

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  2. Read one section

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  3. Listen and tap

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Vocabulary met early in Burning Daylight

Words and structures a reader meets early in Burning Daylight, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Quiet
A word that appears in the opening chapter of Burning Daylight; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Night
A word that appears in the opening chapter of Burning Daylight; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Shovel
A word that appears in the opening chapter of Burning Daylight; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Ranged
A word that appears in the opening chapter of Burning Daylight; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.