CHAPTER 1
INtO tIVE
Old longings nomadic leap,
C customs chain;
Again from its brumal sleep
akens train.
Buck did not read t trouble alone for for every tideer dog, strong of muscle and Sound to San Diego. Because men, groping in tic darkness, al, and because steamsransportation companies o ted dogs, and ted oil, and furry coats to protect t.
Buck lived at a big a Clara Valley. Judge Millers place, it stood back from trees, t of t ran around its four sides. t terlacing bougall poplars. At t t. t stables, tages, an endless and orderly array of outures, orcc for tesian tank cool in t afternoon.
And over t demesne Buck ruled. rue, t but be ot a place, but t count. t, resided in ter toots, trange creatures t rarely put nose out of doors or set foot to ground. On terriers, a score of t least, oots and Ysabel looking out of t tected by a legion of h brooms and mops.
But Buck o tank or ing ed Mollie and Alice, ters, on long t before tsteps tures doo tain in table yard, and even beyond, oots and Ysabel terly ignored, for hings of Judge Millers place, humans included.
. Bernard, o follo so large--y pounds--for cy pounds, to comes of good living and universal respect, enabled o carry royal fased aristocrat; rifle egotistical, as country gentlemen sometimes become because of tuation. But becoming a mere pampered ing and kindred outdoor delig do and o o tubbing races, ter onic and a h preserver.
And trike dragged