as it ripped from tarved tlemen six monts frozen state it rips of galvanized iron, and  into omac to tritious leatrings and into a mass of s ating and indigestible.

    And t all Buck staggered along at team as in a nigill bloiffness and gloss  of iful furry coat. tted ed ao knotty strings, and t eaclined cleanly t iness. It er .

    As it  es. ting skeletons. toget misery to te of ting ant, just as tant. t er-living. ttered faintly.  races like dead dogs, and to go out. And ottered to t and staggered on.

    tured, fell and could not rise. raded off ook traces, t t of t to one side. Buck sa to t day Koona , and but five of too far gone to be malignant; Pike, crippled and limping, only  conscious enougo malinger; Sol-leks, till faito toil of trace and trail, and mournful in t tle strengto pull; teek, raveled so far t er and ill at team, but no longer enforcing discipline or striving to enforce it, blind ime and keeping trail by t and by t.

    It iful spring  neit. Eac later. It  nigly er silence o t spring murmur of a  came from t lived and moved again, t moved during t. ting out in young buds. Sting on fress sang in ts, and in tled forto tridges and . Squirrels ering, birds singing, and over split the air.

    From every rickle of er, tains. All training to break loose t bound it do ate ae from above. Air-, o ting, rending, t-sigo deataggered the huskies.

    itfully ering, taggered into Joons camp at te River. ed, truck dead. Mercedes dried  Joon. C doo