Quotation from: White Fang

Written by: Jack London


White Fang had seen the camp-dogs toiling in the harness, so that he did
not resent overmuch the first placing of the harness upon himself. About
his neck was put a moss-stuffed collar, which was connected by two
pulling-traces to a strap that passed around his chest and over his back.
It was to this that was fastened the long rope by which he pulled at the
sled.


There were seven puppies in the team. The others had been born earlier
in the year and were nine and ten months old, while White Fang was only
eight months old. Each dog was fastened to the sled by a single rope. No
two ropes were of the same length, while the difference in length between
any two ropes was at least that of a dog's body. Every rope was brought
to a ring at the front end of the sled. The sled itself was without
runners, being a birch-bark toboggan, with upturned forward end to keep
it from ploughing under the snow. This construction enabled the weight
of the sled and load to be distributed over the largest snow-surface; for
the snow was crystal-powder and very soft. Observing the same principle
of widest distribution of weight, the dogs at the ends of their ropes
radiated fan-fashion from the nose of the sled, so that no dog trod in
another's footsteps.

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