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Fido 1:105/68
February 20, 1993
TO BUILD A FIRE
by
Jack London
"He was quick and alert in the things of life, but
only in the things, and not in the significances."
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DAY HAD BROKEN cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray,
when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed
the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led
eastward through the fat spruce timberland. It was a steep bank,
and he paused for breath at the top, excusing the act to himself
by looking at his . . .
