Second Reading 73-121

Dairy of the North
(I am a eye witness of these two stories.)
The Call of the Wild
The love that Buck was shown to by John Thornton was unlike anything before. His relationship with the judge was only a friendship. But John treated buck and his other two dogs, Skeet and Nig, like they were his children. He talked to them and played with them a lot. Buck often lay on me lazily watching my water falls and listening to the birds that resided in me. And by doing this he won back his strength. He regained his muscles and flesh covered his bones. Skeet, one of John's dogs, became very friendly with Buck. She licked his wounds to help him heal. As buck got stronger he played many games with John, Skeet, and Nig. Buck had much love for John and had learned that no master stays in your life forever. So Buck followed John wherever he went so that John wouldn't leave him. Then John's friends came traveling on me in a raft to take John and his dogs away to other places. Buck showed his love for John in so many ways. One of the ways was by biting his hand and shaking it in the grip of his sharp teeth. Once when John was testing Buck he said jump and buck did jump. This made my cliff the one they were sitting on crumble and John's friends had to pull Buck and John to safety. John's friend Pete said "I'm not hankering to be the man that lays hands on you while he's around." And Hans John's other friend agreed. One day though When John was trying to break up a fight one of the fighters named Burton hit him. John had to grab the railing to keep from falling and I heard Buck kind of roar as he attacked Burton biting his arm than slashing his throat. Again Buck saved John's life at a river when John fell into me and my current was too rapid for John to swim back to my bank. Also Buck did something that got John a lot of money. People made a bet that Buck couldn't pull one thousand pounds and keep it moving for a hundred yards. They bet one thousand six hundred dollars. But to their amazement he did. With the money John was able to take them east to a place where there was claimed to be a lot of gold. They found that gold and began packing it into bags. But their came a calling from my forest to Buck. Buck began searching for it and leaving John's camp to find it. One time he traveled far to kill a moose and upon returning found John Thornton dead. The Yeehats, Indians, who had killed him and the rest, were dancing around the camp celebrating. Buck attacked and killed many of them. After many days of mourning over John the call came once again from the wolves and this time Buck accepted.

White Fang
Henry and Bill were traveling over me bringing the carcass of some unknown man to McGurry. They were being followed by wolves who took their food and three of their wolves. This really had the men wondering and the remaining dogs scared. All they knew was that a she-wolf was coming into camp and eating their fish and taking their dogs. They didn’t even have enough weapons to keep her off. Also with less dogs they couldn’t travel as far or as long. Things were going down hill for Bill and Henry and they were trying to do something about it.

Sincerely
The North