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dog. The camp was suddenly full of strange, thin dogs. There were eighty or a hundred of them, and they wanted food.
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thin dogs. There were eighty or a hundred of them, and they wanted food. The two
men hit the ... after day, the weather got colder. Then they arrived in Alaska, and
Francois took the dogs off the boat. Buck walked on snow for the first time in his
life.
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did not read the newspapers, and ... rolled them in the
grass, and guarded their footsteps through wild adventures down to the fountain
in the stable yard, and even beyond, where the paddocks were, and the berry
patches. Among the ... were other dogs, There could
not but be other dogs on so vast a place, but they did not count. They came and
went, resided in the populous kennels, or lived obscurely in the recesses ofthe
house...
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cried enthusiastically.
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driver, as he climbed on the wagon and started the ... kinds of fashions to the man in the red sweater. And at such times that
money passed between them the strangers took one or more ofthe dogs away
with them. Buck wondered where they went, for they ... and impartial in administering justice, and too wise in the way of
dogs to be fooled by dogs.
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of them was...
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Buck's first day on the ... into the huge camp at the head of Lake Bennett, where thousands of
goldseekers were building boats against the break-up ofthe ice in the spring.
Buck made his hole in the snow and slept the ...
again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he
remembered back to the youth ofthe breed, to the time thewild dogs ranged in
packs through the primeval forest and killed their...
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found them back on the river with a quarter of a mile to the day's credit.
By the time they made the Hootalinqua and good ice, Buck was played out. The
rest of ...
attacking from the side.
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their sled-dogs. Thewild wave of famished beasts rolled back before them, and
Buck ... which they dared not halt. Once, the sled broke through, with Dave and
Buck, and they were half-frozen and all but drowned by the time they were
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down, the living meat, to kill with his own teeth and wash his muzzle to the
eyes in warm blood.
partof Francois. The insidious ... pride ofthe trail and trace - that pride which holds
dogs in the toil to the last gasp, which lures them to die joyfully in the harness,
and breaks their hearts if they are cut out ofthe harness. ...
but the rest ofthe team went from bad to worse. Things no longer went right.
the articulate travail of existence. It was an old song, old as the breed itself - one
of the first songs of the...