Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 1, March 1923: The unique magazine, Various

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"Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 1, March 1923: The unique magazine by Various" is a pulp magazine published in 1923. Founded by J. C. Henneberger and J. M. Lansinger, this debut issue launched what would become a legendary publication in fantasy and horror fiction. Under editor Edwin Baird, the magazine introduced early works by writers who would shape the genre, including H. P. Lovecraft, Seabury Quinn, and Clark Ashton Smith. Despite initial financial struggles, this first issue marked the beginning of a magazine dedicated to unusual, supernatural stories that had never before found a specialized home.

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Read time
527 min
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115,975
Chapters
81
Paragraphs
3,441
Price
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  • Adventure stories -- Periodicals
  • Fantasy literature, American -- Periodicals
  • Fantasy literature, English -- Periodicals
  • Horror tales, American -- Periodicals
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Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 1, March 1923: The unique magazine_II._

Aye, sir, since you have asked, there has been many a guess about where Black Jean finally disappeared to.

Sí, señor, ya que lo pregunta, se han hecho muchas conjeturas sobre a dónde se llevó finalmente a Black Jean.

He was a French-Canadian and a weed of a man--six-feet-five in his socks; his eyes were little and close together and black; he wore a long thin mustache that drooped;

Era un canadiense francés y un hombre endeble: medía seis pies y cinco pulgadas con zapatos; sus ojos eran pequeños, muy juntos y negros; llevaba un bigote largo y fino que le caía;

and he was as hairy as his two bears.

y estaba tan peludo como sus dos osos.

He just drifted up here to the North, I guess, picking up what scanty living he could by wrestling with the bears and making them wrestle each other.

Supongo que simplemente se derivó hacia el Norte, ganándose la vida como podía, luchando con los osos y haciéndolos luchar entre sí.

’Twas in the King William hotel that many’s the time I’ve seen Black Jean drink whisky by the cupful and feed it to the bears.

Fue en el hotel King William donde muchas veces vi a Black Jean beber whisky a tazas y dárselo a los osos.

Yes, he was interesting, especially to us boys.

Sí, era interesante, especialmente para nosotros los chicos.

Along about the time the French-Canadian and his trick animals were getting to be an old story, there comes--begging your pardon--a Yankee,

Por la época en que el canadiense francés y sus animales de truco se estaban convirtiendo en una historia vieja, apareció, si me permite la expresión, un yanqui,

who said he would put up a windmill at Morgan’s Cove if he could get the quicklime to make the mortar with.

que dijo que construiría un molino de viento en la Ensenada de Morgan si conseguía la cal rápida para hacer la mezcla.

Black Jean said he knew how to make lime and if they would give him time he would put up a kiln.

Black Jean dijo que sabía cómo hacer cal y que, si le daban tiempo, construiría un horno.

So the French-Canadian went to work and built that limekiln you see standing there.

Así que el canadiense francés se puso a trabajar y construyó ese horno de cal que se ve allí.

I was a youngster then, and I know how Black Jean, a little later, built his cabin.

Yo era un muchacho entonces, y sé cómo Black Jean, poco después, construyó su cabaña.

I used to hide and watch him and his bears.

Me escondía y lo observaba a él y a sus osos.

They worked like men together, with an ugly-looking woman that had joined them.

Trabajaban como hombres, junto con una mujer de aspecto desagradable que se les había unido.

They put up the cabin, the bears doing most of the heavy lifting work.

Levantaron la cabaña, haciendo los osos la mayor parte del trabajo pesado.

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English
Translation
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Source text
Project Gutenberg #68957
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