Summary

The Narrator, A bearded man, Travels in the Yukon on an extremely cold morning with a husky wolf dog. The man was a new comer to the land. He was out getting lunch one day for the boys at the camping sight. This story is about his trip back when it starts to get extremely cold. The man starts to travel back down the trail and decides to fallow the creek, knowing that theres danger of springs underneath the show. So the man continues to walk and eventually falls into a spring and has to stop and make a fire. The first fire he makes is under a tree and as soon as he gets it going, snow falls from the tree and puts it out. So then then the man knows he is in deep danger and trys to make another fire which also fails because he has no feeling in his fingers. So then the man looks at the dog and is jelious of its warm coat and he starts to think about a story that he once heard about a man caught in a blizzerd who cutt open a steer and stayed inside its carcass to stay warm. So then the man gets the idea that he will do that to the dog to get his hands warm enough to start the fire. So he leaps and grabs the dog but then quickly realizes that he has no feelings in his hands, there for, he can even grip a knife to cut anything. So then the man gets ups and just starts running, the dog fallows him and stays right at his heels. He evenually falls and can go no longer, So then he sits in the snow and starts to drift of into thought of an old wise man he once spoke to. He was thinking about how right he was that a man should not travel in that cold of weather alone. Then he stops moving and stiffens up. The dog whines to try to get the man attention so he doesn't move. So then he stepped a little closer and smelled the man, He smelled death. The dog slowly backed up and whined and then began to run down the trail that they were headed down to go to the camp.