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from Nome Surprises the Extinct Nag of Disease, because Bone Decided on Dog Teams
"Jack Screw picked it up and took it 40 miles to Old Woman. It wasn’t such a lost cause you know; they beat through the utter cold, their fear of snow, and they brought the diphtheria antitoxin to all the waiting families with their blackened tongues hanging out, anticipating the silence of death and suffering but being rewarded with the soft wet muzzles of exhausted malamutes and huskies with the others -- fast tough dogs of questionable lineage licking the frozen blood and fur balled up in nodules between their pink footpads, pausing to request their reward through wild blue, blue-white, and brown eyes."