Quotation from: The Call of the Wild

Written by: Jack London


There were no takers. Not a man believed him capable of the feat.
Thornton had been hurried into the wager, heavy with doubt; and
now that he looked at the sled itself, the concrete fact, with the
regular team of ten dogs curled up in the snow before it, the more
impossible the task appeared. Matthewson waxed jubilant.


"Three to one!" he proclaimed. "I'll lay you another thousand at
that figure, Thornton. What d'ye say?"

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Designed by Joan A. Smith for the CRATE project
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Part of a series of experiments in web preservation under the direction of Michael L. Nelson, Ph.D.