Buck spends four days stalking and killing the great
bull moose in Chapter 7 of Call of the Wild, and then another day
and night "eating and sleeping." Upon his way back to Thornton's camp, he sensed a
"calamity;" the birds, squirrels and even the breeze gave warning. His hair rippled and
bristled, and his nose picked up the scent of death. First he found Nig, and then Hans,
dead from Indians' arrows. Buck must have realized what happened because he became
a
...
live hurricane of fury, hurling himself upon them (the Yeehats) in a frenzy to
destroy...
The Fiend
incarnate...
He quickly tore
open the throats of two Yeehats and then the Indians began shooting themselves with
arrows that were meant for Buck. But Buck did not stop there. He dragged them down "like
deer" as they tried to flee, and it took the Yeehats a week to eventually reunite and
count their dead. Buck discovered that killing a man was easier than killing an animal,
and he determined to avenge Thornton's death by taking more Yeehat lives. First he
joined the wolf pack, and then he began stalking the Yeehats, who would come to call
Buck the great "Ghost Dog" who drove them from their valley.
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