by Jack London
I don’t think much of Stephen Mackaye any more, though I used to swear by him. I know that in those days I loved him more than my own brother. If ever I meet Stephen Mackaye again, I shall not be responsible for my actions. It passes beyond me that a man with whom I shared food and blanket, and with whom I mushed over the Chilcoot Trail, should turn out the way he did. I always sized Steve up as a square man, a kindly comrade, without an iota of anything vindictive or malicious in his nature. I shall never trust my judgment in men again. Why, I nursed that man through typhoid fever; we starved together on the headwaters of the Stewart; and he saved my life on the Little Salmon. And now, after the years we were together, all I can say of Stephen Mackaye is that he is the meanest man I ever knew.
We started for the Klondike in the fall rush of 1897, and we started too late to get over Chilcoot Pass before the freeze-up. We packed our outfit on our backs part way over, when the snow began to fly, and then we had to buy dogs in order to sled it the rest of the way. That was how we came to get that Spot. Dogs were high, and we paid one hundred and ten dollars for him. He looked worth it. I say looked, because he was one of the finest-appearing dogs I ever saw. He weighed sixty pounds, and he had all the lines of a good sled animal. We never could make out his breed. He wasn’t husky, nor Malemute, nor Hudson Bay; he looked like all of them and he didn’t look like any of them; and on top of it all he had some of the white man’s dog in him, for on one side, in the thick of the mixed yellow-brown-red-and-dirty-white that was his prevailing color, there was a spot of coal-black as big as a water bucket. That was why we called him Spot.
"That Spot" by Jack London
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The breed of spot was unknown
The main characters are the narrator his good friend Stephen MacKaye and the dog they bought spot
The narrator nursed Stephen MacKaye through typhoid fever
spot weighed 60 pounds
The story takes place in Klondike in 1897
The narrator and Stephen MacKaye were close friends
The narrator Stephen bought spot to push their sled
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The main characters are the narrator, his good friend Stephen MacKaye, and the dog they bought, Spot
The narrator nursed Stephen MacKaye through typhoid fever
The story takes place in Klondike in 1897
The narrator and Stephen MacKaye were close friends
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The breed of Spot was unknown
Spot weighed 60 pounds
The narrator, Stephen, bought Spot to push their sled
