The Call of the Wild / Зов предков. Книга для чтения на английском языке

And over this great demesne Buck ruled. Here he was born, and here he had lived the four years of his life. It was true, there were other dogs. There could not but be other dogs on so vast a place, but they did not count. They came and went, resided in the populous kennels, or lived obscurely in the recesses of the house after the fashion of Toots, the Japanese pug, or Ysabel, the Mexican hairless, – strange creatures that rarely put nose out of doors or set foot to ground. On the other hand, th

And over this great demesne Buck ruled. Here he was born, and here he had lived the four years of his life. It was true, there were other dogs

It was true, there were other dogs

And over this great demesne Buck ruled

This man talked with Manuel, and money chinked between them.

“You might wrap up the goods before you deliver ’m,” the stranger said gruffly, and Manuel doubled a piece of stout rope around Buck’s neck under the collar.

Nevertheless, one hundred and forty pounds, to which was added the dignity that

There could not but be other dogs on so vast a place, but they did not count.

half hidden among the trees,