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

Manuel had one besetting sin.

Hunting and kindred outdoor delights had kept down the fat and hardened his muscles;

During the four years since his puppyhood he had lived the life of a sated aristocrat;

or lived obscurely in the recesses of the house after the fashion of Toots, the Japanese pug

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

At the rear things were on even a more spacious scale than at the front

Judge Miller’s place, it was called

dozen grooms and boys held forth

and the big cement tank where Judge Miller’s boys took their morning plunge and kept cool in the hot afternoon

2 , thousands of men were rushing into the Northland