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till he realized that thatwas what they he lay down sullenlyand allowed the crate to be lifted into a he,and the crate in which he was imprisoned, began apassagethrough many in the express office took chargeof him。he was carted about in another wagon。a truckcarried him, with an assortment of boxes and men, groping in the Arctic darkness,had found a yellow metal, and becausesteamship andtransportation panies were booming the find, thousandsof men were rushing into the men wanteddogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, withstrong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protectthem from the lived at a big house in the sunkissed Santa Miller39。s place, it was stood backfrom the road, halfhidden among the trees, through whichglimpses could be caught of the wide cool veranda that ranaround its four house was approached by gravelleddriveways which wound about through widespreadinglawns and under the interlacing boughs of tall rear things were on even a more spacious scale than atthe were great stables, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vinecladservants cottages, anendless and orderly array of outhouses, long grape arborsgreen pastures, orchards, and berry there wasthe pumping plant for the artesian well, and the big cementtank where Judge Miller39。s boys took their morning plungeand kept cool in the hot over this great demense Buck he was born,and here he had lived the four years of his was true,there were other could not but be other dogs onso vast a place, but they didnot came and went,resided in the populous kennels, or lived obscurely in therecesses of the house after the fashion of Toots, the Japanesepug, or Ysabel the Mexican hairless——strangecreaturesthat rarely put nose out of doors or set foot to other hand, there were the fox terriers, a score of themat least, who yelped fearful promises at Toots and Ysabellooking out of thewindows at them and protected by alegion of housemaids armed with brooms and Buck was neither housedog nor kennel realm was plunged into the swimming tankor went hunting with the Judge39。s sons he escorted Mollieand Alice, the Judge39。s daughters, on long twiligh