Dave and Sol-leks, dripping blood from a score of wounds, were fighting bravely side by side.

Joe was snapping like a demon.

Once, his teeth closed on the fore leg of a husky, and he crunched down through the bone.

Pike, the malingerer, leaped upon the crippled animal, breaking its neck with a quick flash of teeth and a jerk, Buck got a frothing adversary by the throat, and was sprayed with blood when his teeth sank through the jugular.

The warm taste of it in his mouth goaded him to greater fierceness.