t PRIMORDIAL BEASt

        t primordial beast rong in Buck, and uions of trail life it gre it    groing o to feel at ease, and not only did    pick fig ain deliberateness cerized titude.    proo rasate a; and in tter red betience, ss.

        On tz never lost an opportunity of seet out of o bully Buck, striving stantly to start t wher.

        Early in trip t aken plaot been for an uned act. At t cut like a    t and Francois o make tself. tent t Yea in order to travel ligicks of drift to eat supper in the dark.

        Close in uering rock Buck made . So snug and , t o leave it ed t t urned,    occupied. A old    trespasser z. till no too mu z z particularly, for o teac imid dog,    and size.

        Francois oo,    in a tangle from ted    and rouble. "A-a-a; o Buck. "Give it to    to y t;

        Spitz ious, as age. But it    ted ed truggle for supremacy far into ture, past many a rail and toil.

        An oat, t of a club upon a bony frame, and a so be alive arvi in out clubs teet back. t found one    ribs, and tant a score of tes    struggled ill t crumb had been devoured.

        In time toniseam-dogs    out of ts only to be set upon by t seemed as t tons, draped loosely in draggled    terrifying, irresistible. team-dogs    back against t t o. Buck    by trice ful. Billee s neck eet a frot, ae of it in o greater fieress.    time felt teeto . It z, treactag from the side.

        Perrault and Francois,    t of to save ts rolled back before t is . to run back to save turo tta team. Billee, terrified into bravery, sprang t of team beoget after t of tail of z rus iion of overt and u mass of    o tzs c out on the lake.

        Later, team-dogs gatoget ser in t. t. t one eam at Yea, orn t; Joe    ao ribbons, cried and . At daybreak to camp, to find tempers. Fully , notter ely eatable, en a pair of Perraults moose- of traces, and even t of lasemplation of it to look over his wounded dogs.

        "A; ly, "mebbe it make you mad dog, tes. Mebbe all mad dog, sacredam!    you t?"

        trail still bet to siffeeam ruggling painfully over t part of trail t entered, and for t matter, t bethem and Dawson.

        ty Mile River s er defied t, and it    places t t all. Six days of exing toil o cover ty terrible miles. And terrible t of t to dog and man. A dozen times, Perrault, nosing t it fell eacime across t a cold snap er registering fifty below zero, and eacime o build a fire and dry s.

        Noted    ed     courier. ook all manner of risks, resolutely ting tle o t and struggling on from dim dao dark. ed t bent and crackled under foot and upon    droime t. to save ted solidly    ting and t the flames.

        At anotime Spitz    team after o Buck, rengt beraining backward, and beill endons cracked.

        Again, t up t scaled it by a miracle,    miracle; and    bit of o a long rope, ted, one by oo t. Francois came up last, after to desd, imately made by t found ter of a mile to t.

        By time talinqua and good ice, Buck . t of tion; but Perrault, to make up lost time, puse and early. t day ty-five miles to t day ty-five more to ttle Salmon; ty miles, ohe Five Fingers.

        Bucks feet    so pad    of tened during tions si or amed by a cave do receive ion of fis to    for    after supper, and sacrificed tops of o make four mocs for Buck. t relief, and Buck caused even t to t itself into a grin one m,    o budge    ter    grerail, and t footgear hrown away.

        At t suddenly mad. Sion by a long, -breaking    every dog bristling raigo fear madness; yet     in a panic. Straiging and frot o to anoto tion started to cross it. And all time, t look,    one leap beo er of a mile aing all    Francois    he axe crashed down upon mad Dollys head.

        Buck staggered ainst ted, sobbing for breatzs opportunity. o ing foe and ripped and tore to tisfa of cz receive t ered to any of team.

        "One devil, dat Spitz," remarked Perrault. "Some dam day    Buck."

        "Dat Buck t; ;All de time I c Buck I knoz all up and spit    on de sno;

        From t z, as lead-dog and aoer of team, felt ened by trange Se Buck o    one rail. too soft, dying uoil, t, and starvation. Buck ion. gterful dog, and    ter    of ery. ly ing, and could bide ime ie ive.

        It able t ted it. ed it because it race--t pride o t gasp, s if t out t laid    break of camp, transf tes into straining, eager, ambitious creatures; t spurred t pitigting to gloomy u and distent. t bore up Spitz and made races or    ime in t    made oo.

        eely. One nig appear.    under a foot of snofully t Pike heard and shivered in his hiding-place.

        But    uz fle o punised , and so s Spitz ly, took    at tiny, and sprang upon o z. But Francois, c t ion of justice, broug. to drive Buck from rate rival, and tt of t into play. unned by tz soundly punisimes offending Pike.

        In t folloill tio interfere betz and ts; but    craftily,    mutiny of Buck, a general insubordination sprang up and increased. Dave and Sol-leks ed, but t of team    from bad tinual bickering and jangling. trouble , and at ttom of it ant appreruggle betake place sooner or later; and on more t trife among turned    of    Bud Spitz    it.

        But tunity did not present itself, and to Daernoon    figill to e. less dogs, and Buck found t    seemed t dogs sreet in long teams, and in t till    by. ted up to t a Clara Valley.    Sout in t, regularly, at    ted a noal song, a weird and eerie    w was Bucks deligo join.

        itars leaping in t dance, and ts pall of sno    ciculate travail of existe self--one of t songs of t ed ions, t by irred.     ery of t o tery. And t irred by it marked teness o the howling ages.

        Seven days from time to Daeep bank by to trail, and pulled for Yea and Salt ater. Perrault c t in; also, travel pride o make trip of t ed t trim. trail to try s of grub f and man, and raveling light.

        ty Mile,    day; and to Pelly. But suc    great trouble aion on t of Francois. t led by Buck royed ty of team. It no longer races. t Buck gave to all kinds of petty misdemeanors. No more z a leader greatly to be feared. ted, and to cy. Pike robbed , and gulped it doe of Buck. Anot Dub and Joe fougz and made    tured, ured, and z    snarling and bristling menagly. In fact,    approac of a bully, and o szs very nose.

        ted tions ill at times tered, table by trange barbarous oatamped tile rage, and tore    it ly ur it again. z eam. Francois kneoo clever ever again to be caugoil    to    it er deligo precipitate a fig es and taraces.

        At ta after supper, Dub turned up a sno, and missed. In a sed team y dogs,    sped dourned off into a small creek, up t eadily. It ran ligrengty strong, around bend after bend, but    gain. o te moonlig    flashed on ahead.

        All t stirring of old instincts ated periods drives men out from ties to forest and plain to kill ts, t, to kill--all t ely more intimate.    t, to kill eeto the eyes in warm blood.

        tasy t marks t of life, and beyond    es as a plete fetful one is alive. tasy, tfulness of living, es to tist, caug of    of flame; it es to tri field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading training after t    fled sly before . ure, and of ts of ure t o time. ered by tidal    joy of eace muscle, joint, and si     deat it , expressing itself in movement, flyiantly uars and over tter t did not move.

        But Spitz, cold and calculating even in    t across a narro    still flitting before    o te pat. It z. t could not turn, and as te teets ba mid air it sri man may s sound of t Bucks .

        Buck did not cry out.    c drove in upon Spitz, so s . tz gained    almost as t beeogeteel jarap, as ter footing, ing lips t hed and snarled.

        In a flas. time    o t, snarling, ears laid back, keenly cage, to Buck y. o remember it all--te , and ttle. Over teness and silence brooded a gly calm. t test y air. t , t amed ant circle. too, , ting sloo Buck it raime. It    ed hings.

        Spitz iced figzbergen tid across ada and to mastery over tter rage o rend aroy,    t o rend aroy. ill o receive a rustacked till    defe attack.

        In vain Buck strove to sie dog. ruck for ter flesered by tz. Fang clas and bleeding, but Buck could not pee z in a ime again ried for te t, ime and every time Spitz slas aook to rus, z, as a ram by    instead, Bucks sime as Spitz leaped lightly away.

        Spitz oucreaming ing    e. And all t and o finis doz took to rus aggering for footing. Once Buck    over, and ty dogs started up; but    in mid air, and ted.

        But Buck possessed a quality t made freatness--imagination.    by instinct, but    by tempting trick, but at t instant s loo teetzs left fore leg. te dog faced ried to knock ed trid broke t fore leg. Despite tz struggled madly to keep up.    circle, ongues, and silvery breating upagonists in t. Only time en.

        tler climes. igill z and to eito fall. Every animal ionless as turo stone. Only Spitz quivered and bristled as aggered bad fort; but    squarely met s on tz disappeared from vieood and looked on, t primordial beast w good.
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