![]() ![]() His lunch is the only thing he carries.Ī large husky follows behind the man. He has his lunch tucked against his skin and smiles when he thinks about taking a break to eat it. He’s on his way to a prospector camp, “where a fire would be going, and a hot supper would be ready” (2). ![]() ![]() It is far below freezing, but this doesn’t compel him to consider his own human frailty.Ĭarrying onward, the man spits, and it freezes before hitting the ground. He is “quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances” (2). As a “newcomer in the land” (2), his unaffectedness is not attributable to experience. In the distance, he sees the “dark hair-line” (1) that is the main trail. He looks back at the path of the Yukon river, which is covered with several feet of ice and snow. In a few days, the sun will again appear above the horizon. It is winter and the sky is clear, but there is no sun. At daybreak, an unnamed man turns off the main Yukon trail to follow a seldom-used trail through spruce timberland. The story is set during the 1890s gold rush in the Klondike region of the Yukon. ![]()
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