Call of the Wild
What happens to the team after John Thornton takes Buck from them?
In chapter 5
In chapter 5
Charles and Hal drive the exhausted team to continue and allow Mercedes to ride on the already over-packed sled. Because of this, the ice breaks and the sled goes down, taking humans and dogs with it.
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