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What did they want with him, these strange men? And where was Mr. Miller?

The next day Buck was carried in the box to the railway station and put on a train to the north. For two days and nights the train travelled north, and for two days and nights Buck neither ate nor drank.

Men on the train laughed at him and pushed sticks at him through the holes in the box. For two days and nights Buck got angrier and hungrier and thirstier.

His eyes grew red and he bit anything that moved. In Seattle four men took Buck to a small, highwalled back garden,

where a fat man in an old red coat was waiting. Buck was now very angry indeed and he jumped and bit at the sides of his box.

The fat man smiled and went to get an axe and a club. 'Are you going to take him out now? ' asked one of the men.

'Of course, ' answered the fat man, and he began to break the box with his axe. Immediately the four other men climbed up onto the wall to watch from a safe place.

As the fat man hit the box with his axe, Buck jumped at the sides, growling and biting, pulling with his teeth at the pieces of broken wood.

After a few minutes there was a hole big enough for Buck to get out.

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