In a second the whole team was in full cry.

A hundred yards away was a camp of the Northwest Police, with fifty dogs, huskies all, who joined the chase.

The rabbit sped down the river, turned off into a small creek, up the frozen bed of which it held steadily.

It ran lightly on the surface of the snow, while the dogs ploughed through by main strength.

Buck led the pack, sixty strong, around bend after bend, but he could not gain.