Call of the Wild
What does Mercedes do to help the dogs that only ends of harming them?
Between chapters 4 and 5
Between chapters 4 and 5
Mercedes overfed them when they needed to rest.
And to cap it all, when Mercedes, with tears in her pretty eyes and a quaver in her throat, could not cajole him into giving the dogs still more, she stole from the fish-sacks and fed them slyly. But is was not food that Buck and the huskies needed, but rest.
Call of the Wild