CHAPTER 2
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ly lost tidiousness er, es, finis, robbed ion. t. ing off t s of to remedy te as fast as tly did above taking belong to ceal a slice of bacon urned, ed tting a uproar ed; , was punished for Bucks misdeed.
t t marked Buck as fit to survive in tile Nort. It marked ability, y to adjust o cions, t s and terrible deat marked, furto pieces of ure, a vain truggle for existence. It private property and personal feeling; but in took suco account was a fool, and in so far as o prosper.
Not t Buck reasoned it out. , t ter . But ter en into al and primitive code. Civilized, ion, say t teness of ion o flee from tion and so save steal for joy of it, but because of tomac rob openly, but stole secretly and cunningly, out of respect for club and fang. In s, t o do t to do them.
(or retrogression) ernal economy. anytter ible; and, once eaten, tomacracted t least particle of nutriment; and to t reac into toug and stoutest of tissues. Sig became remarkably keen, in est sound and knee t eet collected beter by rearing and striking it iff fore legs. conspicuous trait y to scent t it a nigter by tree or bank, t later bleably found o leeward, sered and snug.
And not only did instincts long dead became alive again. ticated generations fell from o to time t and killed t as t do ask for o learn to fig and slas forgotten ancestors. tricks o ty of tricks. to effort or discovery, as till cold niged a star and , pointing nose at star and uries and t to