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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1981.
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Spot-I sold him 20 times
but never got rid of him..
DON'T think much
of Stephen Mackaye any more, though I used to swear by him. I know that in Those days I
by Jack London
And he was looking brute
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And now, after a years we were tegollier, all I can say of Stephen Mackage is that he in The meanest in I ever knew,
We started for the Klondike in the fall rush of 1897, and w started to late to get over Chilenot Pass before the fronze-
14.
the strongest- I ever saw in most intell!-
Jack London, the legitimate son of an Irak vagabond and an American girt, Look part in the Klondike gold ragh in 1997. Instead of Kold, he collected material for The Call of the Wild, eyes over him, which was skett more than
his own life was just outpulla mition cogiri. Most of his
hanks were shout wild life-and
To run your you'd think he let three dogs of his own weight. Maybe he could, but I never saw
it.
wild. ite committed suicide in 1919,
they always came back on us to pay his board bill.
came back, and no one asked for their money.
We didn't want the money. Wo'd have paid handsomely for any one to take him our hands for keeps,
When the lee cleared out ol the lakes and river, we put our outfli ka a Lake Bennett boat and started for Dawson. We had a good team cf dogs. and of course we piled them on top of the outfit.
Marooned
That Spot was along there was no losing him; and a dozen times, the Arst day, he knocked one or another of the dogs over- board In the Course 11 fighting with them. It Was close quarters, and le didn't
lke being crowded.
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"What that dog needs Is space," Steve said "the second day. "Let's euroon him;"
We did, running the boat in at Caribou Crossing for him 10 He wouldn't even tighten the traces, Steve spoke to him the
Jump ashore. Two of the other dogs, good dogs, followed him; first time we put him in her. ness, and he work of shivered,
But he was a good-looker. Al
and we lost two whole days try-
that was all. Not on ormer
the end of the first week we sold ing to find them. on
Isim Tes 75 dollars to the traces.
the He Just stood still
Mounterl Police. They had experienced dug-drivers, and we knew that by the time he'd covered the 600 milles to Dawson he'd be a good sled- stog.
W, packed our sat on our and wobbled, like so much jelly,
bolts part way over, when the
snow began to fly, and then we
had to buy dogs hi order to sied
11 the rest of the way,
Worth it
That was how we came to act That Spot. Dogs were high, and we paid one hundred and ten dollars for him. He looked worth 31. I say looked, be cause he was one of the finest appearing dogs I ever saw,
We, never could make out bis breed. He wasn't husky, nor Malenute, nor Hudson Bay; he looked like all of them and he didn't look like any of then,
And on top of it all he had some of the while man's dog in him, for on one side, in the thick of the mixed yellow- brown-red-and-dirty-white that was his prevailing colour, there was a spot of coal-black as big as a water-bucket. That was why we called him Spot.
He was a good looker right. When he was in dition his muscles stood in bunches all over him.
No work
Steve touched him with
whip. He yelped, but not
Steve
fourhed
the
all
otec.
hin a bit harder. gain,
and he howled-the regular long wolf howl.
There was no getting any work out of That Spot; and to make up for it, he was the biggest pig-glutton of a dog I ever saw. On top of that, he was the cleverest thief. There was 2147 circumventing him. breakfast we
Many a went without our bacon because Spot had been there first.
And It was because of him that we nearly starved to death up the Stewart. He figured out the way to break into our meat- cache, and what he didn't cal, the rest of the team did. But he was impartial. He strie from ail everybody,
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Depressing
A week later we wake up in the morning to the dangdest heard. It dog-fight we'd ever way That Spot come back and knocking the team into shape.
We ate a pretty depressing I can tell you: but breakfast,
hours after- cheered up two ward when we sold him to an metal courier, bound in to Dawson
government despatches.
That Spot was only three days in criming back, and, as usual, celebrated his arrival with a rough house.
and
with
the winter We spent spring after our own outfl was across the pass, frigting other people's pullist and made a fat stake.
WE
And there was never a camp Also, we made money out of within five miles that he didn't. Spot. If we sold him once, we raid. The worst of It Was that sold him 20 times. He always
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BY THE TOP AUTHORS
DRAWING BY BAGHY
DRISCOLL
'There, in the bow of the boot, with ears pricked up, sot Spot
... there was no getting rid of him any more.”
and
We never saw those two dogs agging but the quietness and relief we enjoyed made us decide that it was cheap at the price.
For the first time in months Steve
and and I laughed whistled and sang. We were as happy as clars. The dark days were over. The nightmare had been lifted. That Spot gune.
Three weeks later, one morn- ing. Steve and I were standing on the river-bank at Dawson. A smalt boat was just arriving. from Lake Bennett, I saw Spot, the more I am a nvinced him say something Steve give a start, and heard that there are things in this Rume in the steamer list, and
was world that go beyond science. not nice and that was not On ne vientiße grounds under his breath.
That Spol be explained. the bow of the boat, with ears Then I looked; and there, in
pricked up, at Spot. Now, how did he know we lived there? How did he know we were In Dawson?
iwice, on-Rats," per directions, emptied his magazine and never fouched That Spot. that there was nothing doing. Then a policeman came along A year went by. I was back and arrested him for discharg- in the office and prospering in
the elly all ways—even ing firearms inside
getting a bit limits.
fat.
And then Steve arrived. The more I think of That didn't look me up. I read his
thal
Charmed life
can
$10
wondered why. But I didn't wonder long.
The Klondike is a Food Mean man
country. I might have been there yet, and become # millionaire, if it hadn't been for Spot. He got on my nerves. I stood him for two years ol together, and then I guess my stormina broke,
It was the summer af 1890
telling him
There was no getting rid of when I pulled out. I didn't say anything to Steve, 1 Just many more. Half a dozen sneaked. But I fixed it up all times we put him an board right. I wrote Steve a note, steamboats going down the and enclosed B package Di Yukon; but he merely went "Rough-on-Rats." ashore at the first landing and what to do with it. troited back up the bank.
I was worn down to skin We couldn't sell him, we and bone by That Spot, and I couldn't kill him (both Steve was that nervous I'd jump and and I had tried), and nobody look around when there wasn't anybody within halling distance, bore a charmed life.
But it was astonishing the way I recuperated when I got quit of him. I got back twenty pounds before I arrived in Sun Francisco, and by the time I'd
Pocket cartoons else was able to kill him. He
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I got up one morning and found That Spot chained the gale-post and holding up the milkman. Suve went north to Seattle. I learned, that very morning.
I didn't put on uny more made me weight. My wife buy him a collar arid tug, and within an hour he showed his her pet gratitude by killing Persian cal.
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There is no getting rid of That Spot. He will be with me unút I dle, for he never dic. My appetite is not good since he arrived, and my wie says I am looking peaked. One night That Spot got inlo Mr Harvey's hen-house (lar vey la my next-door neighbour) and killed 19 of Its fancy- bred chickens. I shall have to pay for them.
I saw him steal a chunk of moose-ment from Major Din widdie's cache go heavy that he could just keep one. jump crossed the ferry to Oakland My neighbours on the other shead of Mra Dinwiddie's was my old self again, so that side quarrelled with my wife squaw cook, who Was after even my wife looked In
and then moved out. Spot was him with
for any change in me.
the cause of it. As he went up the hill, after Steve wrote to me once, and And that is why I am dis- the squaw gove up, Major, his letter seained irritated. He appointed in Stephen Mackaye. Dinwiddie himself came out took it kind of hard because I had no idea he was so nean and pumped his Winchester I'd left him with Spot. Also a man, into
He ho said he'd used the "Rough-
EXO.
the landscape,
London Express Service).
When your bones seem
to break
too easily
By CEDRIC CARNE
HAVE you had a fracture more than twice in the last ten years? Or have you strong bones? Sam Wilkins was afraid he had a fragile skeleton. No wonder, for he had broken a bone three times in as many his years. First he had fallen down some stone steps and had heard collar bone click. Then, in a car accident, he had broken a leg. The other day he came into my surgery with his arm in plaster of Paris held up in a sling.
whites of their eyes are bluish "I slipped off a rock whilla
in colour, on holiday," said Sam Wuking, "I fell awkwardly, but it was
As we grow older not only
Sam, who gave do those hormones become less
a quick on to sand. When I found my
available, but also we don't glance in the mirror, said: "My wrist was broken I wondered
stimulate our skeletons with eyes are whiter than while, whether I've just got wcak
the same amount of exercise, bones."
Everybody knows old people "Muddle-aged people Bike haven't such strong bones as you, Sam," I sald. "sit down the young. But not everybody in their ofices nearly all the realises that in middle ago the year then jump aroul whlic bones have begun already toon holiday. Unused to thin be more fragile and cannot
stand up, to the stresses that activity, the bones may break." they used to.
Accidents
"In any case, Sam," 1 hald. "bones that are too brittle or Loo soft because of come pathological condition are Tg- "You mean if I had done latively rare. if people break regular gardening, gone for bones mura often than they "The bones we have now are
golf mare should, it's generally because not the same as we had last walks, and played
my bones would they feel much younger than year, I explained. "Soma egularly,
have been stronger,' ke said their bonca, or simply because people think, wrongly, that "Yes," I nodded. "Exercise they are accident-prone." once we are adults our bones would have stimulated a great Accidents happen to any-. hardly change until the day we er speed of bone growth." body; but some people got more
die.'
up his new bone.
Stronger
where the bones
Many doctors believe that
or
In fact, day and night, pona Of course, some people have then their fair share. destruction and now bone too soft or 100 brittle bones much najdeni-prono people building is going on in our because of linesa.
have certain characteristien in bodies. That is "why wo need There is a condition called common. to oal calcium and
other osteomalacin
Thus, they often come from materials continually to make are too soli. As a result, they over-siriet homes They gen
are more liable to bend and to erally dilike palicemen tracture incompletely.
other symbols of authority, Thoke soft bones are due to Their school and work re- an insumciency of calcium and cords are often very 'orratic. Vitamin D In the diet. Or it
As adults they noem daring may be Beesuse the body and exciting people. But they geting rid of loo much cal- ayold responsibility and And st clum through the kidneys. dimoult to feel any deep at
There is another condition tachments to others... Certain hormones in the body,
Orkn where the trigger of how bone activity: Puptūrie
"No," said Sam Wilkins, "I Also new bona formation is bones are too brilite. As a re, don't think I have mich Aumulated by Uite normal sully they fracturo easily. One personality, 1 guess I just for« strains and stresses on the curious characteristic of people get ny ago."
with this condition is that the -(London Kapture Korvies},
"What stimulates the forma- tion of now bono?" asked Mr Wilkins.
skeleton.
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