the camp and started to look at the luggage and thro things away. Tent, blankets and plates were taken out Mercedes cried when most of her clothes went. When they had finished, Mercedes was still crying, there was a lot luggage on the road, and there was still a lot to go on the sledge.
Then Charles and Hal went out and bought six more dogs, so they now had fourteen. But the new dogs were not real sledge-dogs and they knew nothing about the work Charles and Halput them into harness, but Buck could not teach them how to pull a sledge. So now there were six dogs who couldn't pull at a and eight who were tired after pulling for four thousand kilometres. But Charles and Hal were happy. They had more dogs than any sledge that they had seen at Skagway. They didn't know that no sledge could carry enough food for fourteen dogs.
The next morning Buck led the team up the street. They moved slowly, because they were tired before they started. Buck had pulled to Dawson and back twice, and he didn't want to do it again. He had watched Hal and Charles and Mercedes and he saw that they didn't know how to do anything. And, as the days passed, he saw that they could not learn. It took them half the evening to get everything ready for the night;and it took them half the morning to get ready to leave. And when they did start, they often had to stop because something had fallen off the sled On som days they travelled twenty kilometres and on some days only ten.