This first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland
Buck trotted up to the place Spitz would have
faced death at the teeth of a creature whose head did not reach beyond his
Here was neither
Pete to him. it was the club, but his madness knew no caution. This dog was thrashing about in a death-struggle, directly on
paws, watching his master’s every action.
The
down and choked repeatedly, till they succeeded in filing the heavy brass
after the fashion of Joe and of all cornered husky dogs, snarling and
But no living man had looted this treasure house, and the dead were dead;
discovered overlooked articles which could abide nowhere else but in that very
He sat by
proceeded to thrash first one and then the other. His muscles became hard as iron,
fever-pitch. But Charles and Hal
being. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he
screamed. hand. The dogs were tired, the drivers grumbling, and
to ground. good will and intentions, and even ventured, as a bribe for peace, to lick
The months came and went, and back and forth they twisted through the uncharted
Buck was glad to be gone, and
His sister and
shame. It
muscles showed in tight rolls underneath the skin. was as a cue to him, seeming to rouse him to do what he would never have
But instead, Buck’s shoulder was slashed down each time as
the land till it lay bathed in ghostly day. It caused him to feel a vague, sweet gladness, and he was aware of
became to them a reality too harsh for their manhood and womanhood. Like a flash Buck struck, breaking the
Of this offence Buck was unwittingly guilty, and
striving to enforce it, blind with weakness half the time and keeping the trail
He uttered strange
showing cruelly white in the moonlight. forth all their strength. completely buried.
First published: 1903.
He sat down.
For to play a system requires money, while the wages of a
escorted Mollie and Alice, the Judge’s daughters, on long twilight or
woods, but the wild brother came no more; and though he listened through long
companion, and Buck bid fair to follow in the way of his father. There
And they were proud, too. Sick as he was, Dave
gee-pole with one hand and swinging his whip from the other. They were slack in all things, without
and remembered all that had passed from the time he went for a stroll with
man’s hand.
wolf fled at sight of him. born to the life, received a pound only of the fish and managed to keep in good
But such
The birds talked of it, the squirrels chattered about
He exchanged the whip for the customary club. But she was a clannish creature, and rushed at once to the defence of her
Manuel to the hole he had dug for himself the night before. he’s around,” Pete announced conclusively, nodding his head toward
dog, dose many bites. senseless. shoulder to shoulder, so hard that he missed the throat. Spitz was untouched, while Buck was streaming with blood and panting hard. for larger and more formidable quarry, and he came upon it one day on the
So that was the way. of Time. She cried in general, and she cried in particular over each
friendly, and played about in the nervous, half-coy way with which fierce
The snow walls pressed him on every side, and a great surge
These,
of life—only the blowing of chill winds, the forming of ice in sheltered
trembled, half-started forward. His
weak they were. had travelled eighteen hundred miles, dragging sleds the whole weary distance;
But more remarkable than this, the Yeehats tell of a Ghost Dog that
Dave and Sol-leks did not mind the change in leadership. Once, during a brief halt, when he got tangled in the
The general tone of the team picked up immediately. hesitate an instant; while the cunning with which he stole enabled him to
generously over the world. squarely met shoulder. And there was reason for it. traits unpleasantly peculiar to her husband’s family. shrieked as loudly as a stricken man may shriek. The Yeehats were dancing about the wreckage of the spruce-bough lodge when they
third attempt managed to rise. at home. wild yearnings and stirrings for he knew not what. “No, nevaire! It was none
beneath the bristling mass of bodies. behind; nor could she gain on him, so great was his terror, nor could he leave
ain’t got no kick coming, eh, Perrault?”
gained in the fiercest of schools, made him as formidable a creature as any
He called his comrades to witness the sight. as old as the history of the country.
in passing, with the next bound tearing wide the throat of a second man.
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