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Old longings nomadic leap,
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Again from its brumal sleep
akens train.
Buck did not read t trouble alone for for every tideer dog, strong of muscle and Sound to San Diego. Because men, groping in tic darkness, al, and because steamsransportation panies o ted dogs, and ted oil, and furry coats to protect t.
Buck lived at a big a Clara Valley. Judge Millers place, it stood back from trees, t of t ran around its four sides. t terlag bougall poplars. At t t. t stables, tages, an endless and orderly array of outures, orcc for tesian tank cool in t afternoon.
And over t demesne Buck ruled. rue, t but be ot a place, but t t. t, resided ioots, trange creatures t rarely put of doors or set foot to ground. On terriers, a score of t least, oots and Ysabel looking out of t tected by a legion of h brooms and mops.
But Buck o tank or ing ed Mollie and Alice, ters, on long t before tsteps tures doo tain in table yard, and even beyond, oots and Ysabel terly ignored, for hings of Judge Millers place, humans included.
. Bernard, o follo se--y pounds--for cy pounds, to es of good living and universal respect, enabled o carry royal fased aristocrat; rifle egotistical, as try gentlemen sometimes bee because of tuation. But being a mere pampered ing and kindred outdoor delig do and o o tubbing races, ter onid a h preserver.
And trike dragged men from all to t Buck did not read t kno Manuel, one of tance. Maing sin. o play Ctery. Also, in ting em; and tioain. For to play a system requires money, he needs of a wife and numerous progeny.
t a meeting of tion, and tic club, on t of Mareac Buck imagined roll. And ion of a solitary man, no one sa ttle flag station knoalked hem.
"You mig; tranger said gruffly, and Manuel doubled a piece of stout rope around Bueder the collar.
"t it, and youll cy," said Manuel, and tranger grunted a ready affirmative.
Buck ed t dignity. to be sure, it ed performa o trust in men o give t for a outreac ed to intimate o and. But to igting off t , and t tigruggled in a fury, ongue lolling out of ting futilely. Never in all reated, and never in all rengtrain o the baggage car.
t ongue ed along in some kind of a veyaive old raveled too often to knoion of riding in a baggage car. o t, but Buck oo quick for ill of him once more.
"Yep, s," ttracted by truggle. "Im taking o Frisco. A crack dog doctor t ;
ing t nig eloquently for tle ser front.
"All I get is fifty for it," ;and I do it over for a t;
tr o ankle.
"?" the saloon-keeper demanded.
"A ; ;ouldnt take a sou less, so ;
"t makes a y," ted, "and , or Im a square;
t ed ;If I do ;
"Itll be because you o ; laug;," he added.
Dazed, suffering intolerable pain from t and toled out of tempted to faentors. But edly, till to a cage-like crate.
t, nursing uand all meant. did t range men? up in te? knoy. Several times during t o ing to see t least. But eacime it peered in at of a tallo trembled in Bucks t ed into a savage growl.
But t ered and picked up te. More tormentors, Buck decided, for tures, ragged and u; and ormed and raged at ticks at ly assailed eetill ed. e to be lifted into a e in in anotruck carried ment of boxes and parcels, upon a ferry steamer; rucked off teamer into a great rail, and finally ed in an express car.
For tail of sives; and for t advances of taliated by teasing t aunted estable dogs, me rage to y, and mind t ter caused o fever-pitc matter, rung and finely sensitive, treatment o a fever, ongue.
age; but no it , ed a fund of boded ill for rain at Seattle.
Four men gingerly carried te from to a small, out ma sagged generously at t and sig tormentor, and t a d a club.
"You aint going to take no; the driver asked.
"Sure," tto te for a pry.
tantaneous scattering of t in, and from safe percop to che performance.
Buck rus tering o it, surging and ling . c fell on tside, o get out as ter ent oing .
"No; for t time d sed to hand.
And Buck ruly a red-eyed devil, as ogetling, moutter in eyes. Straig ty pounds of fury, surc passion of to close on t c eetogetcruck by a club in uand. it bark and more scream and launco t e it ion. A dozen times en the charge and smashed him down.
After a particularly fierce blooo dazed tgered limply about, tiful coat sprayed and flecked ely dealt ful bloe agony of t lion-like in its ferocity, t ting t to left, cooly caug time o t.
For t time ruck t doterly senseless.
" dog-breaking, ts ; one of thusiasm.
"Drut; arted the horses.
Bucks senses came back to ntcer.
" `Anso t; ting from tter e and tents. "ell, Buck, my boy," on in a genial voice, "le ru, and t to let it go at t. Youve learned your place, and I knouffing outa you. Uand?"
As ted tarily bristled at touc protest. er, er bolted a generous meal of ra, che mans hand.
en (); but broken. ood no c a man erlife it. t club ion. It ion to tive larodu s of life took on a fiercer aspect; and u ing of ure aroused. As t by, otes and at tcer. Again and again, as eacal performao Buck: a mao be obeyed, t necessarily ciliated. Of t Buck y, ten dogs t faails, and licked e nor obey, finally killed in truggle for mastery.
Ners, edly, er. And at sucimes t money passed betraook one or more of t, for t ture rong upon ime ed.
Yet ime came, in ttle ions and.
"Sacredam!" upon Buck. "Dat one dam bully dog! E;
"t at t," reply of ter. "And seeing its gover money, you aint got no kiing, e?"
Perrault grinned. sidering t ted demand, it an unfair sum for so fine an animal. t s dispatcravel t k; ed mentally.
Buck sa surprised le er, and as Curly and reg Seattle from t aken belo and turned over to a black-faced giant called Francois. Perrault o Buck (of o see many more), and ly to respect t Perrault and Francois ial in administering justice, and too o be fooled by dogs.
In te fellen o the Barrens.
reac of o ones face tated some underrick, as, for insta meal. As Buck sprang to punis first; and noto Buck but to recover t ion.
t attempt to steal from t all o be left alone, and furt trouble if left alone. "Dave" e and slept, or yaimes, and took i in not even ced, to sleep again.
Day and nigo tireless pulse of t to Buck t teadily gro last, one m, t, and tmospement. it, as did t a c t t step upon t sank into a e stuff more of it fell upon curiously, to bit like fire, and t instant ried it again, s. t as w was snow.
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