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Who Has Won to Mastership

           TheywereshortofweightandinpoorconditionwhentheymadeDawson,andshouldhavehadatendays’oraweek’srestatleast. Butintwodays’timetheydroppeddowntheYukonbankfromtheBarracks,loadedwithlettersfortheoutside. Thedogsweretired,thedriversgrumbling,andtomakemattersworse,itsnowedeveryday. Thismeantasofttrail,greaterfrictionontherunners,andheavierpullingforthedogs; yetthedriverswerefairthroughitall,anddidtheirbestfortheanimals. 

           Eachnightthedogswereattendedtofirst. Theyatebeforethedriversate,andnomansoughthissleeping-robetillhehadseentothefeetofthedogshedrove. Still,theirstrengthwentdown. Sincethebeginningofthewintertheyhadtravelledeighteenhundredmiles,draggingsledsthewholewearydistance;andeighteenhundredmileswilltelluponlifeofthetoughest. Buckstoodit,keepinghismatesuptotheirworkandmaintainingdiscipline,thoughhe,too,wasverytired. Billeecriedandwhimperedregularlyinhissleepeachnight. Joewassourerthanever,andSol-lekswasunapproachable,blindsideorotherside. 

           ButitwasDavewhosufferedmostofall. Somethinghadgonewrongwithhim. Hebecamemoremoroseandirritable,andwhencampwaspitchedatoncemadehisnest,wherehisdriverfedhim. Onceoutoftheharnessanddown,hedidnotgetonhisfeetagaintillharness-uptimeinthemorning. 

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