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Title: The call of the wild
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: London, Jack, 1876-1916 Frank Tirro Collection. NcD
Subjects: Animal welfare Feral dogs Pet theft Sled dogs Dogs
Publisher: New York London : The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Duke University Libraries

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The Law ofClub and Fang BUCKS first day on the Dyea beachwas like a nightmare. Every hourwas filled with shock and surprise.He had been suddenly jerked from the heartof civilization and flung into the heart ofthings primordial. No lazy, sun-kissed lifewas this, with nothing to do but loaf and bebored. Here was neither peace, nor rest,nor a moments safety. All was confusionand action, and every moment life and limbwere in peril. There was imperative needto be constantly alert; for these dogs andmen were not town dogs and men. Theywere savages, all of them, who knew no lawbut the law of club and fang. 43 44 THE CALL OF THE WILD He had never seen dogs fight as thesewolfish creatures fought, and his first experi-ence taught him an unforgetable lesson. Itis true, it was a vicarious experience, elsehe would not have lived to profit by it.Curly was the victim. They were campednear the log store, where she, in her friendlyway, made advances to a husky dog the sizeof a full-grown wolf, though

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