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1、最新 料推薦1To the northBuck did not read the newspapersHe did not know that trouble was coming for everybig dog in California Men had found goldin the Yukon， and these men wanted，big strong dogs to work in the cold and snow ofthe northBuck lived in Mr Millers big housein the sunny Santa Clara valley The

2、rewere large gardensand fields of fruit treesaroundthehouse， and a river nearby In a big placelike this，of course， there were many dogsThere were house dogs and farm，dogsbut1最新 料推薦they were not importantBuck was chief dog；he was born here， and this was his place He was four years old and weighed six

3、ty kilos He went swimmingwith Mr Millers sons， and walking with his daughtersHe carried the grandchildren on his back， and he sat at Mr Millers feet in front of the fire in winterBut this was 1897， and Buck did not know that men and dogs were hurrying to north-west Canada to look for goldAnd he did

4、not know that Manuel， one of Mr Millers gardeners， needed money for his large family One day，when Mr Miller was2最新 料推薦out， Manuel and Buck left the garden togetherIt was just an eveningwalk，Buck thoughtNo one saw them ，go and only one man saw them arrive at the railway stationThis man talked to Manu

5、el， and gave him some moneyThen he tied a piece of rope around Bucks neckBuck growled， and was surprised when the ropewas pulled hard aroundhis neckHejumped at the manThe man caught him and suddenlyBuck was on his back with his tongue out of his mouth For a fewmomentshe was unableto move， and itwas

6、easy for the two men to put him into thetrain3最新 料推薦When Buck woke up， the train was still moving The man was sitting and watching him， but Buck was too quick for him and he bit the mans hand hardThen the rope was pulled again and Buck had to let goThat evening， the man took Buck to theback room of

7、a bar in San FranciscoThe barman looked at the mans hand and trousers covered in bloodHow much are they paying you ？forthishe askedI only get fifty dollars4最新 料推薦And the man who stolehim how much did he get？ asked the barmanA hundred He wouldnt take lessThatmakesa hundredand fifty Its a good price f

8、or a dog like himHere， help me to get him into thisThey took off Bucks ropeand pushedhim into a wooden box He spent the night in the box in the back roomof the bar Hisneckstill achedwith pain from the rope， and he could not understandwhat it all meant What did they want with him，thesestrangemen？ And

9、 where was Mr5最新 料推薦Miller？The next day Buck was carried in the box to the railway station and put on a trainto the northFor two days and nights the train travelled north， and for two days and nights Buckneitherate nor drank Men on the train laughedat him and pushedsticks at him through the holes in

10、 the boxFor two days and nights Buck got angrier and hungrier and thirsti-er His eyes grew red and he bit anything that movedIn Seattle four men took Buck to a small，highwalled back garden， where a fat6最新 料推薦man in an old red coat was waitingBuck was now very angry indeedand hejumped and bit at the

11、sides of hisboxThe fat man smiled and went to get an axe and aclubAre you going to take him out？nowasked one of the men Of course， answered the fat man， and he beganto break the box with his axeImmediatelythe four other menclimbedup onto the wall to watch from a safe placeAs the fat man hit the box

12、with his axe， Buck jumpedat the sides， growling and biting， pulling with his teeth at the pieces7最新 料推薦of broken wood After a few minutes there was a hole big enoughfor Buck to get out Now， come here， red eyes， said the fat man， dropping his axe and taking the club in his right handBuck jumpedat the

13、 man， sixty kilos of anger， his mouth wide open ready to bite the mans neck Just before his teeth touched the skin， the man hit him with theclub Buck fell to the ground It was the first time anyone had hit him with a club and he did not understandHe stood up， and jumped again Again the club hit him

14、and he crashedto the ground Ten times he jumped at the man， and ten times the club8最新 料推薦hit him Slowly he got to his feet， now only just able to standThere was blood on his nose and mouth and earsThen the fat man walked up and hit him again， very hard， on the nose The pain was terrible Again， Buck

15、jumped at the man and again he was hit to the groundA last time he jumped， and this time， when the man knockedhim down， Buck did not move9最新 料推薦10最新 料推薦He knows how to teach a dog a，lessonaidone of the men on the wall Then the four men jumpeddown and went back to thestationHisnameis Buck，saidthe fat

16、 man to himself， readingthe letter that had come with the boxWell， Buck， my by，he said in a friendly voice，weveargueda little， and I think the best thing to do now is to stop Be a good dog and well be friends But if youre a bad dog，Ill have to use my club againUnderstand？11最新 料推薦As he spoke，he touch

17、ed Buck ，s andhead although Buck was angry inside，he did not move When the man broughthim water and meat， Buck drank and then ate the meat， piece by piece， from the mans handBuck was beaten（ he knew that） but he was not broken He had learnt that a man with a club was strongerthan himEvery day he saw

18、 more dogs arrive，and each dogwas beaten by the fat man Buck understood that a man with a club must be obeyed， althoughhe did not haveto be afriend12最新 料推薦Men came to see the fat man and to look at the dogs Some-times they paid money and left with one or more of the dogsOne day a short， dark man cam

19、e and looked at BuckThats a good！doghe criedHow much do you want for him？Three hundred dollarsIts a good price，Perrault，said the fat manPerrault smiledand agreedthat it was a good price He knew dogs， and he knew that Buck was an excellentdogOne in ten thousand，Perrault said to13最新 料推薦himselfBuck saw

20、 moneyput into the fat mans hand， and he was not surprisedwhen he and another dog called Curly were taken away by Perrault He took them to a ship， and later that day Buck and Curly stood and watchedthe coast get further and further awayThey had seen the warm south for the last timePerrault took Buck

21、 and Curly down to the bottom of the ship There they met another man， Francois Perrault was a French Canadian， but Francois was halfIndian，tall and darkBuck learnt quickly that Perrault and Francois were fair men，14最新 料推薦calm and honestAnd they knew everything about dogsThere were two other dogs on

22、theshipOne was a big dog called Spitz， as white as snow He was friendly to Buck at first，alwayssmiling He was smilingwhen he tried to steal Bucks food at the first meal Francoiswas quick and hit Spitz before Buck had time to move Buck decidedthat this was fair， and beganto like Francois a littleDave

23、， the other dog， was not friendly He wanted to be alone allthe time He ate and slept and was interested in nothing15最新 料推薦One day was very like another，but Buck noticed that the weather was getting colder One morning， the shipsengines stopped， and there was a feeling of excitement in the shipFrancoi

24、s leashed thedogsand took them outside At the first step Bucks feet went into somethingsoft and white He jumped back insurprise The soft， white thing was also16最新 料推薦falling through the air， and it fell onto him He tried to smell，it and then caught some on his tongueIt bit like fire， and then dis ap

25、peared He tried again and the same thing happened People were watching him and laughing， and Buck felt ashamed， although he did not know why It was his first snow2The law of club and toothBucks first day at Dyea Beach was terrible Every hour there was some，new frightening surprise There was no peace

26、，17最新 料推薦no restonly continual noise and movement And every minute there was danger， becausethesedogsand menwere not town dogs and men They knew only the law of club and toothBuck had never seendogsfight like these dogs； they were like wolves In a few minutes he learnt this from watching Curly She t

27、ried to makefriends with a dog， a big one， al though not as big as she was There was no warningThe dog jumped on Curly， his teeth closed together， then he jumped away，and Curlys face was torn open from eye to mouth18最新 料推薦Wolvesfight like this，biting and jumping away， but the fight did not finish th

28、en Thirty or forty more dogs ran up and madea circlearoundthe fight， watching silently Curly tried to attack the dog who had bitten her； he bit her a second time， and jumped away When she attacked him again， he knocked her backwards，and she fell on the ground She never stood up again， because this w

29、as what the other dogs were waiting for They moved，in and ina moment she was under a crowd of dogsIt was all very suddenBuck saw Spitz run out from the crowd with his tongueout of19最新 料推薦his mouth，laughingThen he sawFrancoiswith an axe， and two or three other men with clubs jump in amongthe dogs Two

30、 minutes later the last of the dogs was chasedaway But Curly lay deadin the snow， her body torn almost to piecesCurlys death often came backto Buck in his dreams He understood that once a dog was down on the ground，he was dead He also rememberedSpitz laughing， and from that moment he hatedhimThen Bu

31、ck had another surpriseFrancois put a harnesson him Buck had seen harnesses on horses，and now he was made20最新 料推薦to work like a horse， pulling Francois on a sledgeinto the forest and returning with wood for the fire Buck worked with Spitz and DaveThe two other dogs had worked ina harnessbefore， and

32、Buck learnt by watching them He also learnt to stop and turn when Francois shoutedThosethree are very gooddogs，F(xiàn)rancois told PerraultThat Buck pulls very ，well and hes learning quicklyPerrault had important letters and official papersto take to Dawson City， so that afternoonhe boughttwo moredogs， tw

33、o brotherscalled Billee and JoeBillee was21最新 料推薦very friendly， but Joe was the oppositeIn the evening Perrault bought one more，dog an old dog with one eye His namewas Sol-leks， which means The Angry One Like Dave， he made no friends；all he wanted was to be aloneThat night Buck discovered another pr

34、oblem Wherewas he going to sleep？ Francoisand Perrault were in their tent， but when he went ，in they shouted angrily and threw things at himOutside it was very cold and windy He lay down in the snow， but he was too cold to sleepHe walked aroundthe tents trying to find22最新 料推薦the other dogsBut， to hi

35、s surprise， they had disappeared He walked around Perraults tent，very， very cold， wondering what to do Sud-denly， the snow under his feet fell in， and he felt something move He jumped back， waiting for the attack， but heard on-ly a friendly bark There， in a warm hole underthe snow，was BilleeSo that

36、was what you had to do Buck chose a place， dug himself a hole and in a minute he was warm and asleepHe slept well， although his dreams werebad23最新 料推薦When he woke ，up at first he did not knowwhere he wasIt had snowed in thenightand the snow now lay thick and heavy above him Suddenly he was afraidthe

37、 fear of a wild animal when it is caughtand cannot escape Growling， he threw himself at the snow， and a moment later，he had jumped upwards into the daylight He saw the tents and remembered everything，fromthe time he had gone for a walk with Manuel to the moment he had dug the hole the nightbefore Wh

38、atdid I say？ shouted Francoisto Perrault， when he saw Buck come up out of the snowThat Buck learns quickly24最新 料推薦Perrault smiledslowly He was carrying important papers， and he neededgood dogs He was very pleased to have BuckThey bought three more dogs that morning， and a quarter of an hour later al

39、l nine dogs were in harnessand on their way up the Dyea Canyon Buck was not sorry to bemoving， and although it was hard work，he almost enjoyeditHe was also surprised to seethat Dave and Solleks no longer looked bored and miserable Pulling in a harness was their ，joband they were happy to do itDave w

40、as sledgedog， the dog nearest to25最新 料推薦the sledgeIn front of him was Buck， then came Sol-leksIn front of them were the six other dogs， with Spitz as leaderat the front Francois had put Buck between Dave and Solleks because they could teach him the workBuck learnt well，and they were good teachersWhe

41、n Buck pulled the wrong way， Dave always bit his ，legbut only lightly Once， when they stopped， Buck got tied up in his harness，and it took ten minutes to get started againBoth Dave and Solleks gavehim a goodbeatingfor that mistake Buck understood， and was more careful after that26最新 料推薦It was a hard

42、 days journey， up the Dyea Canyon and into the mountains They campedthat night at Lake BennettHeretherewere thousandsof gold minersThey were building boats to sail up the lake when the ice melted in the springBuck made hishole in the snow and slept well， but was woken up very early and harnessedto t

43、he sledge The first day they had travelled on snow that had been hardenedby many sledges and they covered sixty kilometres But the next day， and for daysafterwards， they were on new snowTheworkwasharderandtheywentslowly Usually， Perrault went in front，on snowshoes， flattening the snow a little27最新 料

44、推薦for the dogs Francois stayed by the sledge Sometimesthe two men changed places， but there were many small lakes and rivers ， and Perrault understood ice better He always knew when the icessacroa river was very thin Day after day Buck pulled in his harnessThey started in the morning before it was l

45、ight， and they stopped in the evening after dark， ate a piece of fish， and wentto sleep in their holes under thesnowBuck was always hungry Francoisgave him 750 grams of dried fish a ，dayand it was never enough The other dogs were given only 500 grams； they were smallerand could stay28最新 料推薦dive on l

46、ess foodBuck learnt to eat quickly； if he was too slow， the other dogs stole his food Hesaw Pike， one of the new dogs，steal some meat from the sledgewhen Perrault wasnt lookingThe next day Buck stole some and got away unseenPerrault was very angry，but he thought anotherdog， Dub， had taken it and so

47、punishedhim instead ofBuckBuck was learning how to live in the north In the south he had never stolen， but there he had never been so hungryHe stole cleverly and secretly，remembering the29最新 料推薦beatings from the man with theclubBuck was learning the law of club and toothHe learnt to eat any foodanything that he could get his teeth into He learnt to break the ice on water holes w