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Then the beaten brutes crept to the edge of the firelight, licking their wounds, voicing their misery to the stars. The whole stock of dried salmon had been devoured, and perhaps five pounds of flour remained to tide them over two hundred miles of wilderness. Ruth returned to her husband, while Malemute Kid cut up the warm body of one of the dogs, the skull of which had been crushed by the ax.
A small dose of whiskey strengthened him, so that he could dip a spoon into the sugar caddy which Malemute Kid placed before him. After his appetite had been somewhat cloyed, Prince, shuddering as he did so, passed him a mug of weak beef tea. The creature's eyes were alight with a somber frenzy, which blazed and waned with every mouthful. There was very little skin to the face.
I am glad he is going to get killed." "Who are you?" asked Big White Bear. "I'm Huskie, the Malemute dog. Who are you?" "I am a Polar Bear. Where did you come from?" "My home's over there on the shore," said Huskie, pointing his nose toward shore. "Where'd you come from?" "I came from far, far North. I've never been here before. Didn't mean to come this time.
'Put her feet into slippers, and then onto that waxed floor phew! Madeline raised a foot and regarded her shapeless house-moccasins dubiously. In previous winters, both at Circle City and Forty-Mile, she had danced many a night away with similar footgear, and there had been nothing the matter. But now well, if there was anything wrong it was for Malemute Kid to know, not her.
You should have seen the chase, down the river and across the portage. 'But the squaw? asked Louis Savoy, the tall French Canadian, becoming interested; for he had heard of this wild deed when at Forty Mile the preceding winter. Then Malemute Kid, who was a born raconteur, told the unvarnished tale of the Northland Lochinvar.
Both men had led forlorn hopes in their time led with a curse or a jest on their tongues, and in their souls an unswerving faith in the God of Chance. But that merciful deity had been shut out from the present deal. They studied the face of Malemute Kid, but they studied as one might the Sphinx. As the quiet minutes passed, a feeling that speech was incumbent on them began to grow.
Father Roubeau, the humor of the situation just dawning on him, hid a smile behind his mittened hand. 'No, Lon; this rope was made for a man. Malemute Kid could be very impressive on occasion. 'What man? Bettles was becoming aware of a personal interest. 'The other man. 'An' which is the one ye'd mane by that? 'Listen, Lon and you, too, Bettles!
He came ten ice-runs ago, the first of all the Wolves. And with him there was a mighty man, straight as a willow-shoot, and tall; strong as the bald-faced grizzly, with a heart like the full summer moon; his-' 'Oh! interrupted Mackenzie, recognizing the well-known Northland figure, 'Malemute Kid! 'The same, a mighty man. But saw you aught of the squaw?
But a scurry of moccasins and loud cries, rounded off with a pistol-shot, interrupted the discussion. Then the storm-doors opened and Malemute Kid entered, a smoking Colt's in his hand, and a merry light in his eye. 'I got him. He replaced the empty shell, and added, 'Your dog, Scruff. 'Yellow Fang? Mackenzie asked. 'No; the lop-eared one. 'The devil!
'Oh, the juice of the forbidden fruit, roared out the bacchanalian chorus, 'Oh, the juice of the forbidden fruit; But you bet all the same, If it had its right name, It's the juice of the forbidden fruit. Malemute Kid's frightful concoction did its work; the men of the camps and trails unbent in its genial glow, and jest and song and tales of past adventure went round the board.
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