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After
two
efforts
,
they
stood
still
,
panting
.
The
whip
was
whistling
savagely
,
when
once
more
Mercedes
interfered
.
She
dropped
on
her
knees
before
Buck
,
with
tears
in
her
eyes
,
and
put
her
arms
around
his
neck
.
"
You
poor
,
poor
dears
,
"
she
cried
sympathetically
,
"
why
do
n't
you
pull
hard
?
--
then
you
would
n't
be
whipped
.
"
Buck
did
not
like
her
,
but
he
was
feeling
too
miserable
to
resist
her
,
taking
it
as
part
of
the
day
's
miserable
work
.
One
of
the
onlookers
,
who
had
been
clenching
his
teeth
to
suppress
hot
speech
,
now
spoke
up
:
--
"
It
's
not
that
I
care
a
whoop
what
becomes
of
you
,
but
for
the
dogs
'
sakes
I
just
want
to
tell
you
,
you
can
help
them
a
mighty
lot
by
breaking
out
that
sled
.
The
runners
are
froze
fast
.
Throw
your
weight
against
the
gee-pole
,
right
and
left
,
and
break
it
out
.
"
A
third
time
the
attempt
was
made
,
but
this
time
,
following
the
advice
,
Hal
broke
out
the
runners
which
had
been
frozen
to
the
snow
.
The
overloaded
and
unwieldy
sled
forged
ahead
,
Buck
and
his
mates
struggling
frantically
under
the
rain
of
blows
.
A
hundred
yards
ahead
the
path
turned
and
sloped
steeply
into
the
main
street
.
It
would
have
required
an
experienced
man
to
keep
the
top-heavy
sled
upright
,
and
Hal
was
not
such
a
man
.
As
they
swung
on
the
turn
the
sled
went
over
,
spilling
half
its
load
through
the
loose
lashings
.
The
dogs
never
stopped
.
The
lightened
sled
bounded
on
its
side
behind
them
.
They
were
angry
because
of
the
ill
treatment
they
had
received
and
the
unjust
load
.
Buck
was
raging
.
He
broke
into
a
run
,
the
team
following
his
lead
.
Hal
cried
"
Whoa
!
whoa
!
"
but
they
gave
no
heed
.
He
tripped
and
was
pulled
off
his
feet
.
The
capsized
sled
ground
over
him
,
and
the
dogs
dashed
on
up
the
street
,
adding
to
the
gayety
of
Skaguay
as
they
scattered
the
remainder
of
the
outfit
along
its
chief
thoroughfare
.
Kind-hearted
citizens
caught
the
dogs
and
gathered
up
the
scattered
belongings
.
Also
,
they
gave
advice
.
Half
the
load
and
twice
the
dogs
,
if
they
ever
expected
to
reach
Dawson
,
was
what
was
said
.
Hal
and
his
sister
and
brother-in-law
listened
unwillingly
,
pitched
tent
,
and
overhauled
the
outfit
.
Canned
goods
were
turned
out
that
made
men
laugh
,
for
canned
goods
on
the
Long
Trail
is
a
thing
to
dream
about
.
"
Blankets
for
a
hotel
"
quoth
one
of
the
men
who
laughed
and
helped
.
"
Half
as
many
is
too
much
;
get
rid
of
them
.
Throw
away
that
tent
,
and
all
those
dishes
--
who
's
going
to
wash
them
,
anyway
?
Good
Lord
,
do
you
think
you
're
travelling
on
a
Pullman
?
"
And
so
it
went
,
the
inexorable
elimination
of
the
superfluous
.
Mercedes
cried
when
her
clothes-bags
were
dumped
on
the
ground
and
article
after
article
was
thrown
out
.
She
cried
in
general
,
and
she
cried
in
particular
over
each
discarded
thing
.
She
clasped
hands
about
knees
,
rocking
back
and
forth
broken-heartedly
.
She
averred
she
would
not
go
an
inch
,
not
for
a
dozen
Charleses
.
She
appealed
to
everybody
and
to
everything
,
finally
wiping
her
eyes
and
proceeding
to
cast
out
even
articles
of
apparel
that
were
imperative
necessaries
.
And
in
her
zeal
,
when
she
had
finished
with
her
own
,
she
attacked
the
belongings
of
her
men
and
went
through
them
like
a
tornado
.
This
accomplished
,
the
outfit
,
though
cut
in
half
,
was
still
a
formidable
bulk
.
Charles
and
Hal
went
out
in
the
evening
and
bought
six
Outside
dogs
.
These
,
added
to
the
six
of
the
original
team
,
and
Teek
and
Koona
,
the
huskies
obtained
at
the
Rink
Rapids
on
the
record
trip
,
brought
the
team
up
to
fourteen
.
But
the
Outside
dogs
,
though
practically
broken
in
since
their
landing
,
did
not
amount
to
much
.
Three
were
short-haired
pointers
,
one
was
a
Newfoundland
,
and
the
other
two
were
mongrels
of
indeterminate
breed
.
They
did
not
seem
to
know
anything
,
these
newcomers
.
Buck
and
his
comrades
looked
upon
them
with
disgust
,
and
though
he
speedily
taught
them
their
places
and
what
not
to
do
,
he
could
not
teach
them
what
to
do
.
They
did
not
take
kindly
to
trace
and
trail
.
With
the
exception
of
the
two
mongrels
,
they
were
bewildered
and
spirit-broken
by
the
strange
savage
environment
in
which
they
found
themselves
and
by
the
ill
treatment
they
had
received
.
The
two
mongrels
were
without
spirit
at
all
;
bones
were
the
only
things
breakable
about
them
.
