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A dainty eater, he found that his mates, finishing first, robbed him of hisunfinished ration. There was no defending it. While he was fightingoff two or three, it was disappearing down the throats of the others. Toremedy this, he ate as fast as they; and, so greatly did hunger compelhim, he was not above taking what did not belong to him. He watchedand learned. When he saw Pike, one of the new dogs, a clevermalingerer and thief, slyly steal a slice of bacon when Perrault's backwas turned, he duplicated the performance the following day, gettingaway with the whole chunk. A great uproar was raised, but he wasunsuspected; while Dub, an awkward blunderer who was always gettingcaught, was punished for Buck's misdeed. burberry outlet 　　This first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northlandenvironment. It marked his adaptability,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], his capacity to adjust himselfto changing conditions, the lack of which would have meant swift andterrible death. It marked,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], further, the decay or going to pieces of hismoral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle forexistence. It was all well enough in the Southland, under the law oflove and fellowship, to respect private property and personal feelings;but in the Northland,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], under the law of club and fang, whoso took suchthings into account was a fool, and in so far as he observed them hewould fail to prosper. ugg boots clearance 　　Not that Buck reasoned it out. He was fit, that was all, andunconsciously he accommodated himself to the new mode of life. Allhis days, no matter what the odds, he had never run from a fight. Butthe club of the man in the red sweater had beaten into him a morefundamental and primitive code. Civilized, he could have died for amoral consideration, say the defence of Judge Miller's riding-whip; butthe completeness of his decivilization was now evidenced by his abilityto flee from the defence of a moral consideration and so save his hide. burberry outlet 　　He did not steal for joy of it, but because of the clamor of his stomach. 　　He did not rob openly, but stole secretly and cunningly, out of respect forclub and fang. In short, the things he did were done because it waseasier to do them than not to do them. 　　His development (or retrogression) was rapid. His muscles becamehard as iron,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and he grew callous to all ordinary pain. He achieved aninternal as well as external economy. He could eat anything, no matterhow loathsome or indigestible; and, once eaten, the juices of his stomachextracted the last least particle of nutriment; and his blood carried it tothe farthest reaches of his body, building it into the toughest and stoutestof tissues. Sight and scent became remarkably keen, while his hearingdeveloped such acuteness that in his sleep he heard the faintest soundand knew whether it heralded peace or peril. He learned to bite the iceout with his teeth when it collected between his toes; and when he wasthirsty and there was a thick scum of ice over the water hole,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he wouldbreak it by rearing and striking it with stiff fore legs. His mostconspicuous trait was an ability to scent the wind and forecast it a nightin advance. No matter how breathless the air when he dug his nest bytree or bank, the wind that later blew inevitably found him to leeward,sheltered and snug. [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] 　　And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long deadbecame alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. Invague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the timethe wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killedtheir meat as they ran it down. It was no task for him to learn to fightwith cut and slash and the quick wolf snap. In this manner had foughtforgotten ancestors. They quickened the old life within him, and theold tricks which they had stamped into the heredity of the breed were histricks. They came to him without effort or discovery, as though theyhad been his always. And when,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], on the still cold nights, he pointed hisnose at a star and howled long and wolflike, it was his ancestors,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], deadand dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuriesand through him. And his cadences were their cadences, the cadenceswhich voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of thestiffness, and the cold, and dark.

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