Audiobook Fiction - The Call of the Wild by Jack London
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Chapter Six For the Love of a man. When john thornton froze his feet in the previous december. His partners had made him comfortable, and left him to get well going on themselves up the river to get out a raft of saw logs. For Dawson he was still limping slightly at the time he rescued the buck, but with the continued warm weather, even the slight limp left him. And here, lying by the river bank through the long spring days, watching the running water, listening lazily to the songs of birds in the hum of nature buck slowly won back his strength Arrest comes very good. After one has traveled 3000 miles and it must be confessed that buck waxed lazy as his wounds healed, his muscles swelled out, and the flesh came back to cover his bones. For that matter. They were all loafing buck, john thornton and ***** and *** waiting for the raft to come. That was to carry them down to Dawson. ***** was a little irish setter, who early made friends with buck, who, in a dying condition, was unable to resent her first advances. She had the doctor treat which some dogs possess, and as a mother cat washes her kittens. So she washed and cleansed buck's wounds regularly. Each morning after he had finished his breakfast, she performed her self appointed task until he came to look for her administration's as much as he did for thornton's *** equally friendly though less demonstrative, was a huge black dog, half bloodhound, and half deerhound with eyes that laughed and a boundless good nature. Two bucks surprise These dogs manifested no jealousy toward him. They seem to share the kindliness and largeness of john thorton. As buck grew stronger, they enticed him into all sorts of ridiculous games in which thornton himself could not forbear to join. And in this fashion buck romped through his convalescence into a new existence. Love, genuine, passionate love was his for the first time.