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Opening The call of the wild
Jack London
Public domain text from Project Gutenberg.
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The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
Contents
Chapter I. Into the Primitive
Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang
Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast
Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership
Chapter V. The Toil of Trace and Trail
Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man
Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call
Chapter I. Into the Primitive
Old longings nomadic leap,
Chafing at custom s chain;
Again from its brumal sleep
Wakens the ferine strain.
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Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble
was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog,
strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San
Diego. Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow
metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming
the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men
wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong
muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the
frost.
Buck lived at a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. Judge
Miller s place, it was called. It stood back from the road, half hidden
among the trees, through which glimpses could be caught of the wide
cool veranda that ran around its four sides. The house was approached
by gravelled driveways which wound about through wide-spreading lawns
and under the interlacing boughs of tall poplars. At the rear things
were on even a more spacious scale than at the front. There were great
stables, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad
servants cottages, an endless and orderly array of outhouses, long
grape arbors, green pastures, orchards, and berry patches. Then there
was the pum…
Contents
Chapter I. Into the Primitive
Page 1 Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang
Page 11 Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast
Page 18 Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership
Page 30 Chapter V. The Toil of Trace and Trail
Page 38 Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man
Page 51 Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call
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