... 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 ... 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.
"Druther break cayuses any day, and twice on Sundays," was the reply ofthe
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 ... brought
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For two days and nights this express car was dragged along at the tail of
shrieking locomotives; and for two days and nights Buck neither...
... surge
of fear swept through him - the fear ofthewild thing for the trap. It was a token
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II. The Law of Club and Fang
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...
... ofthe rope, and night
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 ...
upon 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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joined the flight out on the lake.
Later, the nine team-dogs gathered together and sought shelter in the forest.
Though unpursued, they were...
... left the Yukon three years later without any gold, but with the idea
for a good story. This was TheCallofthe Wild.
Two of his other books about the cold north are White Fang and The Son ofthe ... 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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Buck's ... heard the noise of Perrault's club and the cry of a
dog. The camp was suddenly full of strange, 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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later without any gold, but with the idea for a good story. This was TheCallofthe
Wild.
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the ... heard the
noise of Perrault's club and the cry of a dog. The camp was suddenly full of strange,
thin dogs. There were eighty or a hundred of them, and they wanted food. The two
men hit the...
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Buck did not read the newspapers. He did not know ... and watched the coast get further and further away. They had seen
the warm south for the last time.
Perrault took Buck and Curly down to the bottom ofthe ship. There they met another
man, ... led the other dogs well.
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The attic had been very still all the day after Sara had left it in the early
morning. The stillness had only been broken by the pattering ofthe rain
upon the slates and the skylight. ... spoke. Then she came to
this fancy; and the next day, the Sahib being ill and wretched, I told him of
the thing to amuse him. It seemed then but a dream, but it pleased the Sahib.
To hear ofthe ... without blows from a
hammer. I placed many in the plaster where I may need them. They are
ready."
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14. What Melchisedec Heard and Saw
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