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68 of the sun in the sky. White Fang knew nothing about fire. It drew him as the light in the mouth of the cave had drawn him in his early puppyhood. He crawled the several steps toward the flame. He heard Gray Beaver chuckle above him, and he knew the sound was not hostile. Then his nose touched the flame, and at the same instant his little tongue went out to it. For a moment he was paralyzed. The unknown, lurking in the midst of the sticks and moss, was savagely clutching him by the nose. He scrambled backward, bursting out in an astonished explosion of ki-yi’s. At the sound, Kiche leaped snarling to the end of her stick, and there raged terribly because she could not come to his aid. But Gray Beaver laughed loudly, and slapped his thighs, and told the happening to all the rest of the camp, till everybody was laughing uproariously. But White Fang sat on his haunches and ki-yi’d and ki-yi’d, a forlorn and pitiable little figure in the midst of the man-animals. It was the worst hurt he had ever known. Both nose and tongue had been scorched by the live thing, sun-colored, that had grown up under Gray Beaver’s hands. He cried and cried interminably, and every fresh wail was greeted by bursts of laughter on the part of the man-animals. He tried to soothe his nose with his tongue, but the tongue was burnt too, and the two hurts coming together produced greater hurt; whereupon he cried more hopelessly and helplessly than ever. And then shame came to him. He knew laughter and the meaning of it. It is not given us to know how some animals know laughter, and know when they are being laughed at; but it was this same way that White Fang knew it. And he felt shame that the mananimals should be laughing at him. He turned and fled away, not from the hurt of the fire, but from the laughter that sank even deeper, and hurt in the spirit of him. And he fled to Kiche, raging at the end of her stick like an animal gone mad- to Kiche, the one creature in the world who was not laughing at him. Twilight drew down and night came on, and White Fang lay by his mother’s side. His nose and tongue still hurt, but he was perplexed by a greater trouble. He was homesick. He felt a vacancy in him, a need for the hush and quietude of the stream and the cave in the cliff. Life had become too populous. There were so many of the man-animals, men, women, and children, all making noises and irritations. And there were the dogs, ever squabbling and bickering, bursting into uproars and creating confusions. The restful loneliness of the only life he had known was gone. Here the very air was palpitant with life. It hummed and
69 buzzed unceasingly. Continually changing its intensity and abruptly variant in pitch, it impinged on his nerves and senses, made him nervous and restless and worried him with a perpetual imminence of happening. He watched the man-animals coming and going and moving about the camp. In fashion distantly resembling the way men look upon the gods they create, so looked White Fang upon the man-animals before him. They were superior creatures, of a verity, gods. To his dim comprehension they were as much wonderworkers as gods are to men. They were creatures of mastery, possessing all manner of unknown and impossible potencies, overlords of the alive and the not alive- making obey that which moved, imparting movements to that which did not move, and making life, sun-colored and biting life, to grow out of dead moss and wood. They were firemakers! They were gods!
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1906 WHITE FANG Jack London 1
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Table Of Contents PART ONE CHAPTER
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PART ONE CHAPTER ONE The Trail of t
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7 At the fall of darkness they swun
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9 the snow before supper. Henry gru
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CHAPTER TWO. The She-wolf. 11 BREAK
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13 they will,’ Bill affirmed. ‘
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15 It was dark, and he could not se
Page 17 and 18: 17 merciless wistfulness of hunger.
Page 19 and 20: CHAPTER THREE. The Hunger Cry. 19 T
Page 21 and 22: 21 He sat for a long while upon the
Page 23 and 24: 23 repeatedly, now one at a time, n
Page 25 and 26: 25 This howling now bothered him. H
Page 27 and 28: 27 But there was another sound. Far
Page 29 and 30: 29 might have fought, but even wooi
Page 31 and 32: 31 mildness toward her, they were a
Page 33 and 34: 33 One moonlight night, running thr
Page 35 and 36: 35 rabbit. As he sank back with it
Page 37 and 38: 37 almost a grunt, she curled her b
Page 39 and 40: 39 never in his long life had porcu
Page 41 and 42: 41 the big cat squalled with hurt a
Page 43 and 44: CHAPTER THREE. The Gray Cub. 43 HE
Page 45 and 46: 45 toward the cave’s entrance, an
Page 47 and 48: CHAPTER FOUR. The Wall of the World
Page 49 and 50: 49 Also, its appearance had changed
Page 51 and 52: 51 his own cave-door on his first f
Page 53 and 54: 53 He came down a shelving bank to
Page 55 and 56: 55 of blood, and it was ever her pr
Page 57 and 58: 57 and as he grew older he felt thi
Page 59 and 60: 59 He began to accompany his mother
Page 61 and 62: PART THREE CHAPTER ONE. The Makers
Page 63 and 64: 63 And then the cub saw his mother,
Page 65 and 66: 65 Only a few seconds elapsed befor
Page 67: 67 A moment later he was straying a
Page 71 and 72: 71 strong and dominant in his own n
Page 73 and 74: 73 respectful distance. White Fang
Page 75 and 76: 75 White Fang did not repeat his at
Page 77 and 78: CHAPTER THREE. The Outcast. 77 LIP-
Page 79 and 80: 79 nose serrulated by continuous sp
Page 81 and 82: CHAPTER FOUR. The Trail of the Gods
Page 83 and 84: 83 followed the river bank down the
Page 85 and 86: CHAPTER FIVE. The Covenant. 85 WHEN
Page 87 and 88: 87 from the pack had made the pack
Page 89 and 90: 89 Hands were things to keep away f
Page 91 and 92: 91 Beaver. One result of this was t
Page 93 and 94: 93 Baseek was surprised by the othe
Page 95 and 96: 95 without her. Her meaning was for
Page 97 and 98: 97 rabbit at a time when Gray Beave
Page 99 and 100: PART FOUR CHAPTER ONE. The Enemy of
Page 101 and 102: 101 But there was one lesson the do
Page 103 and 104: 103 thousands of gold-hunters were
Page 105 and 106: 105 savage vengeance on the offende
Page 107 and 108: CHAPTER TWO. The Mad God. 107 A SMA
Page 109 and 110: 109 menace, and hurt, and is hated
Page 111 and 112: 111 Beauty Smith tightened the thon
Page 113 and 114: 113 Gray Beaver looked on stolidly
Page 115 and 116: 115 eluding, and always leaping in
Page 117 and 118: 117 earth. No dog could make him lo
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119 after White Fang. The display o
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121 satisfaction. At such moments h
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123 glaze, he knew beyond doubt tha
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125 closed, and the surface of them
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CHAPTER FIVE. The Indomitable. 127
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129 The dog-musher surveyed the str
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CHAPTER SIX. The Love-master. 131 A
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133 He compromised. He snarled and
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135 But this love did not come in a
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137 never ran to meet his god. He w
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139 quickly. He was awkward from se
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141 White Fang, still wrought up an
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143 The other glared at him in sudd
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145 The other nodded, and asked,
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147 ‘’Bout time you come,’ gr
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149 desperate. He essayed another c
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CHAPTER THREE. The God’s Domain.
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153 from them. But after a time, he
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155 blundering gods. All her suspic
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157 neutrality must obtain. But the
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CHAPTER FOUR. The Call of Kind. 159
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161 But nobody else ever romped wit
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163 At this moment speech came to W
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165 marked his trail through the pr
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167 and ceased. Then naught came up
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169 door for his antagonist to ente
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