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   It is another cold and windy day. Jason started to hear 

yelling from outside. King hears it too. To make it worse 

King starts to bark. 

    People start to barge in. There were three men and a 

12 year old boy. The boy was crying and his uncle starts 

to yell at him. He says that he has to leave him there 

because the boy is too big of a cry baby, it is too cold to 

be bringing a boy over the trail, and he would never help 

portage our supplies.

    "I'll be better! I wont cry and I will be a man!" the boy 

yells.

     "No. You had your chance, and you blew it!"

      The men started to leave without the boy. Jason felt 

too bad to even speak.The boy goes to bed from crying 

for a long time.

   The boy started to wake up from the smell of Jason 

making mulligan stew. Jason asked about what 

happened.

     "He never really wanted me to go with them. My dad 

passed away a few months ago, so he felt bad and 

brought me along."

     " What's your name?" Jason asked.

     "Charlie. What's your name?"

     "Jason. Were you guys heading to Dawson?"

     "No. Going back. We already went there. It's starting 

to become a boom town. We never mined for gold. My 

uncle said I wasn't strong enough to even try. Are you 

going to Dawson?"

     " Actually yes. Yes I am."

    The last few weeks was around 50 below zero. Jason 

got wood and Charlie cooked the meals. The days 

seemed longer than normal because there was nothing 

to do.

    The next day Jason and King went to find a bear 

they have been hunting. Jason brought his gun and an 

ax. Jason poked in a hole with a stick that looked like a 

bears den. He felt something as soft as a pillow. 

     He heard a growl. All of a sudden a big black bear 

came bursting out of the den. The bear started to 

attack King. When Jason tried to run to help his foot 

got stuck in the roots of an old fallen tree. He tried to 

shoot his gun but the bullets were in the flour sack 

across the field.

    King was getting terribly hurt. He got scratched so 

bad that he was bleeding up a storm. He bit the bear 

on the neck. It fell to the ground.

    Jason finally got out and he hit the bear on the 

head with his ax.He ran over to King. King was laying 

on the ground dying. Jason couldn't help himself, he 

cried. King was bleeding horribly. Jason looked into 

King's eyes and he said,"King don't leave me." King 

died in his arms.

     "No!" Jason cried. That was the second dog that 

left him.

     The next day Jason and Charlie went outside and 

hallowed out an old pine tree. They cut it in half and 

hallowed out the inside. They laid King's body into it 

and stuck it together with oakum and rope. They buried 

him right by the house.   

       The next week they started packing up and going 

down the river. Along the way there was a flotilla of 

boats. It was a good thing they were in the front. They 

reached Dawson in a matter of hours.

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