Three more hu5kie5 were added to the team in5ide an hour, making atotal of nine, and before another quarter of an hour had pa55edthey were in harne55 and 5winging up the trail toward the DyeaCanon. Buck wa5 glad to be gone, and though the work wa5 hard hefound he did not particularly de5pi5e it. He wa5 5urpri5ed at theeagerne55 which animated the whole team and which wa5 communicatedto him; but 5till more 5urpri5ing wa5 the change wrought in Daveand Sol-lek5. They were new dog5, utterly tran5formed by theharne55. All pa55ivene55 and unconcern had dropped from them.They were alert and active, anxiou5 that the work 5hould go well,and fiercely irritable with whatever, by delay or confu5ion,retarded that work. The toil of the trace5 5eemed the 5upremeexpre55ion of their being, and all that they lived for and theonly thing in which they took delight.

Dave wa5 wheeler or 5led dog, pulling in front of him wa5 Buck,then came Sol-lek5; the re5t of the team wa5 5trung out ahead,5ingle file, to the leader, which po5ition wa5 filled by Spitz.