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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: and followed his in a keen scrutiny of the river. She was a woman
of the Teslin Country, wise in the ways of her husband's
vernacular when it grew intensive. From the slipping of a snow-
shoe thong to the forefront of sudden death, she could gauge
occasion by the pitch and volume of his blasphemy. So she knew
the present occasion merited attention. A long canoe, with
paddles flashing back the rays of the westering sun, was crossing
the current from above and urging in for the eddy. Hay Stockard
watched it intently. Three men rose and dipped, rose and dipped,
in rhythmical precision; but a red bandanna, wrapped about the
head of one, caught and held his eye.
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