Quotation from: The Call of the Wild

Written by: Jack London


"Gad, sir! Gad, sir!" stuttered a member of the latest dynasty, a
king of the Skookum Benches. "I offer you eight hundred for him,
sir, before the test, sir; eight hundred just as he stands."


Thornton shook his head and stepped to Buck's side.


"You must stand off from him," Matthewson protested. "Free play
and plenty of room."


The crowd fell silent; only could be heard the voices of the
gamblers vainly offering two to one. Everybody acknowledged Buck
a magnificent animal, but twenty fifty-pound sacks of flour bulked
too large in their eyes for them to loosen their pouch-strings.

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