The call of the wild . y never came back; but the fear 34 THE CALL OF THE WILD of the future was strong upon him, and he wasglad each time when he was not selected. Yet his time came, in the end, in the formof a little weazened man who spat brokenEnglish and many strange and uncouth excla-mations which Buck could not understand. Sacredam! he cried, when his eyes litupon Buck. Dat one dam bully dog! Eh ?How moch ? Three hundred, and a present at that,was the prompt reply of the man in the redsweater. And seein its government money,you aint got no kick coming, eh, Perrault ? Perrault grinned. Co
The call of the wild . y never came back; but the fear 34 THE CALL OF THE WILD of the future was strong upon him, and he wasglad each time when he was not selected. Yet his time came, in the end, in the formof a little weazened man who spat brokenEnglish and many strange and uncouth excla-mations which Buck could not understand. Sacredam! he cried, when his eyes litupon Buck. Dat one dam bully dog! Eh ?How moch ? Three hundred, and a present at that,was the prompt reply of the man in the redsweater. And seein its government money,you aint got no kick coming, eh, Perrault ? Perrault grinned. Considering that the priceof dogs had been boomed skyward by the un-wonted demand, it was not an unfair sum forso fine an animal. The Canadian Governmentwould be no loser, nor would its despatchestravel the slower. Perrault knew dogs, andwhen he looked at Buck he knew that hewas one in a thousand— One in tentousand, he commented mentally. Buck saw money pass between them, andwas not surprised when Curly, a good-natured. PERRAULT. INTO THE PRIMITIVE 37 Newfoundland, and he were led away by thelittle weazened man. That was the last he sawof the man in the red sweater, and as Curlyand he looked at receding Seattle from thedeck of the Narwhal^ it was the last he saw ofthe warm Southland. Curly and he were takenbelow by Perrault and turned over to a black-faced giant called Fran9ois. Perrault was aFrench-Canadian, and swarthy; but Fran9oiswas a French-Canadian half-breed, and twice asswarthy. They were a new kind of men toBuck (of which he was destined to see manymore), and while he developed no affection forthem, he none the less grew honestly to re-spect them. He speedily learned that Perraultand Fran9ois were fair men, calm and impartialin administering justice, and too wise in the wayof dogs to be fooled by dogs. In the tween-decks of the Narwhal^ Buckand Curly joined two other dogs. One ofthem was a big, snow-white fellow from Spitz-bergen who had been brought away by awhaling
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