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When
Thornton
's
partners
,
Hans
and
Pete
,
arrived
on
the
long-expected
raft
,
Buck
refused
to
notice
them
till
he
learned
they
were
close
to
Thornton
;
after
that
he
tolerated
them
in
a
passive
sort
of
way
,
accepting
favors
from
them
as
though
he
favored
them
by
accepting
.
They
were
of
the
same
large
type
as
Thornton
,
living
close
to
the
earth
,
thinking
simply
and
seeing
clearly
;
and
ere
they
swung
the
raft
into
the
big
eddy
by
the
saw-mill
at
Dawson
,
they
understood
Buck
and
his
ways
,
and
did
not
insist
upon
an
intimacy
such
as
obtained
with
Skeet
and
Nig
.
For
Thornton
,
however
,
his
love
seemed
to
grow
and
grow
.
He
,
alone
among
men
,
could
put
a
pack
upon
Buck
's
back
in
the
summer
travelling
.
Nothing
was
too
great
for
Buck
to
do
,
when
Thornton
commanded
.
One
day
(
they
had
grub-staked
themselves
from
the
proceeds
of
the
raft
and
left
Dawson
for
the
head-waters
of
the
Tanana
)
the
men
and
dogs
were
sitting
on
the
crest
of
a
cliff
which
fell
away
,
straight
down
,
to
naked
bed-rock
three
hundred
feet
below
.
John
Thornton
was
sitting
near
the
edge
,
Buck
at
his
shoulder
.
A
thoughtless
whim
seized
Thornton
,
and
he
drew
the
attention
of
Hans
and
Pete
to
the
experiment
he
had
in
mind
.
"
Jump
,
Buck
!
"
he
commanded
,
sweeping
his
arm
out
and
over
the
chasm
.
The
next
instant
he
was
grappling
with
Buck
on
the
extreme
edge
,
while
Hans
and
Pete
were
dragging
them
back
into
safety
.
"
It
's
uncanny
,
"
Pete
said
,
after
it
was
over
and
they
had
caught
their
speech
.
Thornton
shook
his
head
.
"
No
,
it
is
splendid
,
and
it
is
terrible
,
too
.
Do
you
know
,
it
sometimes
makes
me
afraid
.
"
"
I
'm
not
hankering
to
be
the
man
that
lays
hands
on
you
while
he
's
around
,
"
Pete
announced
conclusively
,
nodding
his
head
toward
Buck
.
"
Py
Jingo
!
"
was
Hans
's
contribution
.
"
Not
mineself
either
.
"
It
was
at
Circle
City
,
ere
the
year
was
out
,
that
Pete
's
apprehensions
were
realized
.
"
Black
"
Burton
,
a
man
evil-tempered
and
malicious
,
had
been
picking
a
quarrel
with
a
tenderfoot
at
the
bar
,
when
Thornton
stepped
good-naturedly
between
.
Buck
,
as
was
his
custom
,
was
lying
in
a
corner
,
head
on
paws
,
watching
his
master
's
every
action
.
Burton
struck
out
,
without
warning
,
straight
from
the
shoulder
.
Thornton
was
sent
spinning
,
and
saved
himself
from
falling
only
by
clutching
the
rail
of
the
bar
.
Those
who
were
looking
on
heard
what
was
neither
bark
nor
yelp
,
but
a
something
which
is
best
described
as
a
roar
,
and
they
saw
Buck
's
body
rise
up
in
the
air
as
he
left
the
floor
for
Burton
's
throat
.
The
man
saved
his
life
by
instinctively
throwing
out
his
arm
,
but
was
hurled
backward
to
the
floor
with
Buck
on
top
of
him
.
Buck
loosed
his
teeth
from
the
flesh
of
the
arm
and
drove
in
again
for
the
throat
.
This
time
the
man
succeeded
only
in
partly
blocking
,
and
his
throat
was
torn
open
.
Then
the
crowd
was
upon
Buck
,
and
he
was
driven
off
;
but
while
a
surgeon
checked
the
bleeding
,
he
prowled
up
and
down
,
growling
furiously
,
attempting
to
rush
in
,
and
being
forced
back
by
an
array
of
hostile
clubs
.
A
"
miners
'
meeting
,
"
called
on
the
spot
,
decided
that
the
dog
had
sufficient
provocation
,
and
Buck
was
discharged
.
But
his
reputation
was
made
,
and
from
that
day
his
name
spread
through
every
camp
in
Alaska
.
Later
on
,
in
the
fall
of
the
year
,
he
saved
John
Thornton
's
life
in
quite
another
fashion
.
The
three
partners
were
lining
a
long
and
narrow
poling-boat
down
a
bad
stretch
of
rapids
on
the
Forty
--
Mile
Creek
.
Hans
and
Pete
moved
along
the
bank
,
snubbing
with
a
thin
Manila
rope
from
tree
to
tree
,
while
Thornton
remained
in
the
boat
,
helping
its
descent
by
means
of
a
pole
,
and
shouting
directions
to
the
shore
.
Buck
,
on
the
bank
,
worried
and
anxious
,
kept
abreast
of
the
boat
,
his
eyes
never
off
his
master
.
