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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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went, resided in the populous kennels, or lived obscurely in the recesses ofthe
house ... after the fashion of Toots, the Japanese pug, or Ysabel, the Mexican
hairless, - strange creatures that rarely put nose out of doors or set foot to
ground. On the other hand, there were the fox...
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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 ...
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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 ... himself to the shock of Spitz's charge, then
joined the flight out on the lake.
Later, the nine team-dogs gathered together and sought shelter in the forest.
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circle and fled away over the ice. Pike and Dub followed on his heels, with the
rest ofthe team behind. As Buck drew himself together to spring after them, out
of the tail of his eye he saw Spitz...
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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 ofthe ...
ages of fire and roof to the raw beginnings of life in the howling ages.
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steep bank by the Barracks to the Yukon Trail,...
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scale. Economists are far worse: the vast majority of economists never even
bother to ask the question ofthe proper scale ofthe economy ... copy ofThe Theory
of Island Biogeography, but he saw the significance sooner than nearly all
other ecologists. In 1978, by-then Professor Soulé and one of his graduate
students at University of ... appreciate the full meaning of that
insight for years.
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their ideas in a book, The Theory of Island Biogeography. In it, they too,...