... a squarehead."
The kidnapper undid the bloody wrappings and looked at his lacerated hand. "If
CALLOFTHEWILD
JACK LONDON
CHAPTER 1( P1)
I. Into the Primitive
"Old ... On the other hand, there were the fox terriers, a score of them at least,
who yelped fearful promises at Toots and Ysabel looking out ofthe windows at
them and protected by a legion of housemaids ... And this was the manner of dog Buck was in the fall of 18 97, when the
Klondike strike dragged men from all the world into the frozen North. But Buck
did not read the newspapers, and he...
... by the little weazened man.
That was the last he saw ofthe man in the red sweater, and as Curly and he
looked at receding Seattle from the deck ofthe Narwhal, it was the last he saw
of the ... 'tween-decks ofthe Narwhal, Buck and Curly joined two other dogs. One
of them was a big, snow-white fellow from Spitzbergen who had been brought
CALLOFTHEWILD
JACK LONDON
CHAPTER 1( P2)
... one ofthe men on the wall
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...
... surge
of fear swept through him - the fear ofthewild thing for the trap. It was a token
CALLOFTHEWILD
JACK LONDON
CHAPTER 2
II. The Law of Club and Fang
Buck's first day on the ... glaciers and snowdrifts hundreds of feet deep, and over
the great Chilcoot Divide, which stands between the salt water andthe fresh and
guards forbiddingly the sad and lonely North. They made ... which voiced their woe and
what to them was the meaning ofthe stiffness, andthe cold, and dark.
Thus, as token of what a puppet thing life is, the ancient song surged through
him and he came...
... 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
CALLOFTHEWILD
JACK LONDON
CHAPTER 3 (P1) ... by the aid 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 ... over the hardest
part ofthe trail they had yet encountered, and for that matter, the hardest
between them and Dawson.
The Thirty Mile River was wide open. Its wild water defied the frost, and...
... he moaned and sobbed, it was with the pain of
living that was of old the pain of his wild fathers, andthe fear and mystery of
the cold and dark that was to them fear and mystery. And that he ... sounding the deeps of his nature, andofthe parts of his
nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time. He was
mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the ... pride ofthe trail and trace - that pride which holds
dogs in the toil to the last gasp, which lures them to die joyfully in the harness,
and breaks their hearts if they are cut out ofthe harness....
... knew to be the eyes of great beasts of prey. And
he could hear the crashing of their bodies through the undergrowth, andthe
noises they made in the night. And dreaming there by the Yukon bank, ... against him and trying to thrust him
off into the soft snow on the other side, striving to leap inside his traces and get
between him andthe sled, and A the while whining and yelping and crying ... Tagish, and Bennett (seventy miles of lakes), they flew
so fast that the man whose turn it was to run towed behind the sled at the end of
a rope. And on the last night ofthe second week they...
... the heavy load they dragged sapped their strength severely.
CALLOFTHEWILD
JACK LONDON
CHAPTER 5 (P1)
V. The Toil of Trace and Trail
Thirty days from the time it left ... men and kept up an unbroken
chattering of remonstrance and advice. When they put a clothes-sack on the
front ofthe sled, she suggested it should go on the back; and when they had put
it on the ... which time Buck and his mates found how really tired
and weak they were. Then, on the morning ofthe fourth day, two men from the
And so it went, the inexorable elimination ofthe superfluous....
... great
misery they had become insensible to the bite ofthe lash or the bruise ofthe
club. The pain ofthe beating was dull and distant, just as the things their eyes
saw and their ears heard ... dogs, andthe spark dimmed and paled and seemed to go out. And when
the club or whip fell upon them, the spark fluttered feebly up, and they tottered
to their feet and staggered on.
There ... weakness half the time and keeping the trail by the loom of it and by the
dim feel of his feet.
It was beautiful spring weather, but neither dogs nor humans were aware of it.
Each day the sun...
... to them. But they
went under the water many times, and they hit many hard rocks.
Then, suddenly, they were on the ground next to the river. They looked dead and they had a lot of cuts on them. ... through these wonderful days, with new life everywhere, the
two men, the woman, andthe dogs walked. They didn't enjoy the spring. They thought only ofthe hard work andthe pain.
Buck andthe ... came to Buck and barked at him in a half-friendly way. Then the wolves jumped away and ran
into the trees. And Buck ran with them, next to his wild brother. He answered thecallofthe wild.
Specially...
... through these wonderful days, with new life everywhere, the
two men, the woman, andthe dogs walked. They didn't enjoy the spring. They
thought only ofthe hard work andthe pain.
Buck andthe ... heard the
noise of Perrault's club andthe 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 ... him. The two men looked strange in the North, and they didn't
understand life there.
Hal and Charles took Buck andthe other dogs to their new camp. Buck saw a
woman, Mercedes, there, and...
... was a lot of
luggage on the road, and there was still a lot to go on the sledge.
Then Charles and Hal went out and bought six more dogs, so they now had fourteen. But
Thecallofthewild Oxford ... was the wolf that Buck had met before in the forest. They touched noses. Then another
wolf came forward to make friends, and another. Soon the pack was all around Buck, andthe
call ofthewild ... 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
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