In the canon
To Build A Fire
- Form
- Form Short Story
- Year
- Year 1908
- Pages
- Pages 30
Spit crackles in the air before it reaches the snow, and that is how the man knows it is colder than fifty below. It is seventy-five, on a grey Yukon morning with no sun, and he is walking alone toward the boys at a camp on Henderson Creek, a wolf-dog trotting at his heels.
Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail
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