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CHAPTER 4

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        "E I say? I speak true ;

        t m o ts liged t.

        "Dat Spitz fig; said Perrault, as s.

        "An dat Buck fig;And noime. No more Spitz, no more trouble, sure."

        packed tfit and loaded to rotted up to tz    notig    Sol-leks to ted position. In , Sol-leks    lead-dog left. Buck sprang upon Sol-leks in a fury, driving anding in his place.

        "E; Francois cried, slapping ;Look at dat Buck.    Spitz, o take de job."

        "Go o budge.

        ook Buck by teningly, dragged o one side and replaced Sol-leks. t like it, and s e, but    all uno go.

        Francois ;No; h a heavy club in his hand.

        Buck remembered ter, areated sloempt to c for    beyond tterness and rage; and    if the way of clubs.

        t about o Buck     of Dave. Buck retreated teps. Francois folloed. After some time of t Buck feared a t Buck . ed, not to escape a clubbing, but to    ent h less.

        Perrault took a    for tter part of an    o e after o test geion, and every    out of t try to run a retreated around and around tising plainly t w, he would e in and be good.

        Francois sat doc looked at cime rail an d grinned s t ten. t up to o Buck. Buck laug kept ance. Francois unfastened Sol-lekss traces and put eam stood o trail. t t. Once more Francois called, and once more Buck laug away.

        "t; Perrault anded.

        Francois plied, ted in, laugriumply, and so position at team. races e, and    on to trail.

        a bound Buck took up ties of leaders ing, z, of whom Francois had never seen an equal.

        But it es live up to it, t Buck excelled. Dave and Sol-leks did not mind t o toil, and toil migraces. So long as t    interfered    care    order. t of team,    days of Spitz, and t no Buck proceeded to lick to shape.

        Pike,    tband to do, ly aedly s day z ue of superior weig ill o whine for mercy.

        tone of team picked up immediately. It recovered its old-time solidarity, and once more traces. At tive eek and Koona, y ook ah.

        "Never suc Buck!" ;No, never!    you say, Perrault?"

        And Perrault nodded. rail    dition, end. It    too cold. temperature dropped to fifty belorip. turn, and t on t infrequent stop-pages.

        ty Mile River ively coated    en days ing in. In one run ty-mile das of Lake LeBarge to te agist (seventy miles of lakes), t t turn it o run to nigopped e Pass and dropped dos of Skaguay and of t t.

        It y miles. For t and Francois ts up and doreet of Skaguay and ations to drink, aer of a o    out toerest turo ot came official orders. Francois called Buck to    over     of Francois and Perrault. Like ot of Bucks life food.

        A Scotcook ces, and in pany eams arted back over trail to Da    oil ea, carrying o t gold uhe Pole.

        Buck did not like it, but o taking pride in it after t es, , did t onous life, operating y. One day    a certain time eaed out, fires , and breakfast en. t s, ot fireer or ice for to ture of t o loaf around, after ten, for an ers among t ttles    brougo mastery, so t    out of his way.

        Best of all, pero lie ret front,    times    of Judge Millers big a Clara Valley, and of t sank, and Ysabel, toots, t ofte figz and ten or o eat.    ant, and sut y t gave ty; tincts (ors bee s) ill later, in him, quied and became alive again.

        Sometimes as    t seemed t t as    man from ter of leg and longer of arm,    ringy and knotty ratted, and ed bader it from ttered strange sounds, and seemed very muco c, a stiade fast to t naked, a ragged and fire-scorc    ted into almost a t sta, but runk ined for bent at t    catlike, and a quick alertness as of one hings seen and unseen.

        At otimes tted by t beasts of prey. And . And dreaming t ts of anoto rise along and on end across ill ly, a ;; o    up and yaretchough he had been asleep.

        It    of    at least. But in time tters for tside. tired, to make matters    sno a soft trail, greater fri on t t all, and did t for the animals.

        Eac tteo first. te before te, and no man sougill o t of till, trengt doer traveled eigance; and eigell upon life of toug. Buck stood it, keeping es up to taining disciplioo ired. Billee cried and her side.

        But it able, and    get on    again till ime in times, in traces, raining to start it,     could find ed in alked it over at meal-time, and over t pipes befoing to bed, and one nigation.    from    to till    many times. Somet te no broken bones, could not make it out.

        By time Cassiar Bar races. td took    of team, making t dog, Sol-leks, fast to tention o rest Dave, letting ed being taken out, grunting and groened, and rail    bear t an should do his work.

        arted,    srail, attag Sol-leks eet rying to t o t snoriving to leap inside races a beto drive    o tinging las t to strike o run quietly on trail be tio flounder alongside in t sno, till exed. train of sleds ed by.

        it remnant to stagger along beill train made anotop, o ood alongside Sol-leks.    to get a ligurned and started    on trail ion, turopped in surprise. too; t moved. o . Dave ten traces, and anding directly in front of the sled in his proper place.

        o remain talked of s    t killed it, and recalled instaoo old for toil, or injured,    out of traces. Also, t a mercy, since Dave o die any races, -easy and tent. So    involuntarily from te of . Several times fell doraces, and o er on one of his hind legs.

        But    till camp o travel. At ime ried to crao s    on , staggered, and fell. to    es sa till t of sig of river timber.

        rain craced eps to t. talking. A revolver-s rang out. tinkled merrily, trail; but Buerees.
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