... through the chest of another hunter with such force that the point broke through the skin of the back and stood out beyond Then a panic seized the Yeehats, and they fled in terror to the woods, ... it was not the life of the herd, or of the young bulls, that was threatened The life of only one member was demanded, which was a remoter interest than their lives, and in the end they were content ... over the trees into the sky, lighting the land till it lay bathed in ghostly day And with the coming of the night, brooding and mourning by the pool, Buck became alive to a stirring of the new...