White Fang

Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a...

They travelled on without speech, saving their breath for the work of their bodies. On every side...

Well, Henry . . . Bill stopped for a moment, in order that his words might gain greater...

What gets me, Henry, is what a chap like this, thats a lord or something in his own country, and...

The men slept, breathing heavily, side by side, under the one covering. The fire died down, and the...

Henry was bending over and adding ice to the babbling pot of beans when he was startled by the...

Henry left the cooking to come and see. Not only had his partner tied the dogs up, but he had tied...

Full into the firelight, with a stealthy, sidelong movement, glided a doglike animal. It moved with...

Bill grunted his disagreement with the diagnosis, and lapsed into silence. The day was like all the...

A few minutes later, Henry, who was now travelling behind the sled, emitted a low, warning whistle....

Bill waved his hand at it threateningly and shouted loudly; but the animal betrayed no fear. The...

You neednt stray off too far in doin it, his partner admonished. If that pack ever starts to jump...

Henry rolled over angrily on his side, but was surprised that Bill made no similar display of...

He tried to sniff noses with her, but she retreated playfully and coyly. Every advance on his part...

Henry sat down on the sled and watched. There was nothing else for him to do. Bill had already gone...

But he was not destined to enjoy that bed. Before his eyes closed the wolves had drawn too near for...

Then he took the trail, the lightened sled bounding along behind the willing dogs; for they, too,...

As he piled wood on the fire he discovered an appreciation of his own body which he had never felt...

He made one desperate attempt to pull out on the trail. But the moment he left the protection of...

He dreamed. It seemed to him that he was in Fort McGurry. It was warm and comfortable, and he was...

You aint got me yet. he cried, savagely shaking his fist at the hungry beasts; and at the sound of...

Again he awakened, a little later, though it seemed hours to him. A mysterious change had taken...

Running at the forefront of the pack was a large grey wolf one of its several leaders. It was he...

At such times, confronted by three sets of savage teeth, the young wolf stopped precipitately,...

There was food in plenty. The bull weighed over eight hundred pounds fully twenty pounds of meat...

The battle began fairly, but it did not end fairly. There was no telling what the outcome would...

And all the while the she wolf sat on her haunches and smiled. She was made glad in vague ways by...

They did not remain in one place, but travelled across country until they regained the Mackenzie...

She was strangely stirred, and sniffed and sniffed with an increasing delight. But old One Eye was...

One Eye sprang back with a snort of sudden fright, then shrank down to the snow and crouched,...

It was his mate who relieved him from the quandary in which he found himself. She took the rabbit...

And then she found the thing for which she sought. It was a few miles up a small stream that in the...

He crawled over to his mate and tried to persuade her to get up. But she only snarled at him, and...

But there was no danger. Old One Eye was feeling the urge of an impulse, that was, in turn, an...

But at the end of half an hour he arose, growled wrathfully at the motionless ball, and trotted on....

He lay down in the snow, depositing the ptarmigan beside him, and with eyes peering through the...

Everything had happened at once the blow, the counter blow, the squeal of agony from the porcupine,...

With a nervous, shrinking paw, One Eye stretched out the porcupine to its full length and turned it...

Most of the first month of his life had been passed thus in sleeping; but now he could see quite...

He was a fierce little cub. So were his brothers and sisters. It was to be expected. He was a...

In fact, the grey cub was not given to thinking at least, to the kind of thinking customary of men....

Then there came a time when the grey cub no longer saw his father appearing and disappearing in the...

So the grey cub knew fear, though he knew not the stuff of which fear was made. Possibly he...

The hair bristled upon the grey cubs back, but it bristled silently. How was he to know that this...

A great fear came upon him. This was more of the terrible unknown. He crouched down on the lip of...

But the slope grew more gradual, and its base was grass covered. Here the cub lost momentum. When...

But the cub was learning. His misty little mind had already made an unconscious classification....

He encountered a feathered whirlwind. He was confused and blinded by the rush of it and the beat of...

While he lay in the bush, recovering from his fright and peering fearfully out, the mother...

Midway in the passage, the current picked up the cub and swept him downstream. He was caught in the...

While he yelped and ki yid and scrambled backward, he saw the mother weasel leap upon her young one...

The cub experienced another access of affection on the part of his mother. Her joy at finding him...

But there were times when even a moose bird failed to affect him, and those were times when he felt...

Before, he had hunted in play, for the sheer joyousness of it; now he hunted in deadly earnestness,...

Once, the cub sprang in and sank his teeth into the hind leg of the lynx. He clung on, growling...

He saw the law operating around him on every side. He had eaten the ptarmigan chicks. The hawk had...

The cub came upon it suddenly. It was his own fault. He had been careless. He had left the cave and...

One of the Indians arose and walked over to him and stooped above him. The cub cowered closer to...

And then the cub saw his mother, the she wolf, the fearless one, crouching down till her belly...

This be the sign of it, Grey Beaver went on. It is plain that his mother is Kiche. But his father...

White Fang had never seen dogs before, but at sight of them he felt that they were his own kind,...

He did not like it. Nor did he like it when the man animals arose and went on with their march; for...

A moment later he was straying away again from his mother. Her stick was tied to a peg in the...

Women and children were carrying more sticks and branches to Grey Beaver. It was evidently an...

Twilight drew down and night came on, and White Fang lay by his mothers side. His nose and tongue...

And so it was with White Fang. The man animals were gods unmistakable and unescapable. As his...

But the bane of his life was Lip lip. Larger, older, and stronger, Lip lip had selected White Fang...

Lip lip, excited by the chase and by the persistent nearness of his victim, forgot caution and...

There was something calling to him out there in the open. His mother heard it too. But she heard...

Impelled by the blows that rained upon him, now from this side, now from that, White Fang swung...

When the canoe touched the shore, White Fang lay whimpering and motionless, waiting the will of...

Nay, Grey Beaver himself sometimes tossed him a piece of meat, and defended him against the other...

Out of this pack persecution he learned two important things. how to take care of himself in a mass...

White Fang became hated by man and dog. During this period of his development he never knew a...

Young dogs are bound to play, and out of the exigencies of the situation they realised their play...

White Fang trembled with fear, and though the impulse came to crawl out of his hiding place, he...

A tree, contracting in the cool of the night, made a loud noise. It was directly above him. He...

Where the river swung in against precipitous bluffs, he climbed the high mountains behind. Rivers...

Night had fallen. The snow was flying more thickly, and White Fang, whimpering softly to himself as...

White Fang had seen the camp dogs toiling in the harness, so that he did not resent overmuch the...

Because he ran at the end of the longest rope, the dogs had always the view of him running away...

A companionship did exist between White Fang and the other dogs, but it was one of warfare and...

He was a monstrous tyrant. His mastery was rigid as steel. He oppressed the weak with a vengeance....

It was in a village at the Great Slave Lake, that, in the course of resenting the evil of the hands...

It was in line with these experiences that White Fang came to learn the law of property and the...

The spring of the year was at hand when Grey Beaver finished his long journey. It was April, and...

Baseek was old, and already he had come to know the increasing valour of the dogs it had been his...

The effect on White Fang was to give him a greater faith in himself, and a greater pride. He walked...

He was still standing, stupid and bewildered, the memories forgotten, wondering what it was all...

In the third year of his life there came a great famine to the Mackenzie Indians. In the summer the...

In the worst pinches of the famine he stole back to the fires of the gods. But he did not go into...

Kiches greeting of her grown son was anything but affectionate. But White Fang did not mind. He had...

Had there been in White Fangs nature any possibility, no matter how remote, of his ever coming to...

If ever a creature was the enemy of its kind, White Fang was that creature. He asked no quarter,...

On the other hand, try as they would, they could not kill White Fang. He was too quick for them,...

In consequence, the strange dogs he encountered had no chance against him. He eluded their fangs....

It was at Fort Yukon that White Fang saw his first white men. As compared with the Indians he had...

But if the white gods were all powerful, their dogs did not amount to much. This White Fang quickly...

White Fang enjoyed it all. He did not love his kind, and he was shrewd enough to escape hurt...

All of which served to make White Fangs days enjoyable. If the sight of him drove these strange...

But there was one man amongst them who particularly enjoyed the sport. He would come running at the...

In short, Beauty Smith was a monstrosity, and the blame of it lay elsewhere. He was not...

Grey Beaver refused to sell the dog. He had grown rich with his trading and stood in need of...

But scarcely had he lain down when Grey Beaver staggered over to him and tied a leather thong...

He did not rush a second time. One smash from the club was sufficient to convince him that the...

White Fang knew why he was being beaten. When Grey Beaver tied the thong around his neck, and...

Grey Beaver looked on stolidly while the white man wielded the whip. He gave no protection. It was...

But Beauty Smith had a purpose in all that he did to White Fang. One day a number of men gathered...

In the fall of the year, when the first snows were falling and mush ice was running in the river,...

In addition to being exhibited he was a professional fighting animal. At irregular intervals,...

As the time went by, he had fewer and fewer fights. Men despaired of matching him with an equal,...

Tim Keenan stepped in and bent over Cherokee, fondling him on both sides of the shoulders with...

Not that Cherokee was slow. He could turn and whirl swiftly enough, but White Fang was never there....

Time and again White Fang had attempted to knock Cherokee off his feet; but the difference in their...

The bulging back of Cherokees neck was the only portion of his body that White Fangs teeth could...

It was at this time that a diversion came to the spectators. There was a jingle of bells. Dog...

Both men bent over the dogs. Matt took hold of White Fang, ready to pull when Cherokees jaws should...

White Fang made several ineffectual efforts to get up. Once he gained his feet, but his legs were...

White Fang could scarcely realise that he was free. Many months had gone by since he passed into...

Served m right. You said so yourself, Mr. Scott. He tried to take White Fangs meat, an hes dead O....

Matt took the rifle and began slowly to raise it to his shoulder. White Fangs snarling began with...

After a long time, the god got up and went into the cabin. White Fang scanned him apprehensively...

He licked his chops and waited. The god went on talking. In his voice was kindness something of...

But the god talked on softly, and ever the hand rose and fell with non hostile pats. White Fang...

Life, as he had known it, not only had had no place in it for much that he now did; but all the...

Weedon Scott had set himself the task of redeeming White Fang or rather, of redeeming mankind from...

Like had been replaced by love. And love was the plummet dropped down into the deeps of him where...

Different from the Mackenzie toboggans were the Klondike sleds with runners under them. And...

That dam wolf wont work. Wont eat. Aint got no spunk left. All the dogs is licking him. Wants to...

Weedon Scott did not hear. He was squatting down on his heels, face to face with White Fang and...

Having learned to snuggle, White Fang was guilty of it often. It was the final word. He could not...

Matt helped the man to his feet. As he arose he lowered his crossed arms, exposing the bestial face...

Then came the day when, through the open cabin door, White Fang saw the fatal grip on the floor and...

Both men stopped. White Fang was howling as dogs howl when their masters lie dead. He was voicing...

But Weedon Scott was not listening. He was thinking rapidly. The Auroras whistle hooted a final...

And here, in this inferno of luggage, was White Fang deserted by the master. Or at least White Fang...

White Fang, bristling silently, half crouching as he rose, sank back and watched the hostile act...

The carriage drove on, and still Collie blocked White Fangs way. He tried to outrun her by leaving...

The master was running up, but was too far away; and it was Collie that saved the hounds life....

White Fang walked stiff legged up the steps and across the porch, with tail rigidly erect, keeping...

So Collie took advantage of her sex to pick upon White Fang and maltreat him. His instinct would...

Yet White Fang was never effusively affectionate. He yielded to the masters children with an ill...

Outside the household there was even more for White Fang to learn. The masters domain was wide and...

Later in the day, he chanced upon another stray chicken near the stables. One of the grooms ran to...

In the morning, when the master came out on to the porch, fifty white Leghorn hens, laid out in a...

From hidden points of vantage the family watched the performance. But it was a fizzle. Locked in...

There were butcher shops where meat hung within reach. This meat he must not touch. There were cats...

White Fang no longer hesitated. He turned and leaped silently among his enemies. All three faced...

Besides, all Southland dogs looked upon him with suspicion. He aroused in them their instinctive...

White Fang had never been very demonstrative. Beyond his snuggling and the throwing of a crooning...