1 He called Hans and Pete to him.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man 2 Further, he had no thousand dollars; nor had Hans or Pete.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man 3 Hans promptly snubbed with the rope, as though Buck were a boat.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man 4 Hans paid out the rope, permitting no slack, while Pete kept it clear of coils.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man 5 Hans snubbed the rope around the tree, and Buck and Thornton were jerked under the water.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man 6 A thoughtless whim seized Thornton, and he drew the attention of Hans and Pete to the experiment he had in mind.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man 7 Thornton came to, belly downward and being violently propelled back and forth across a drift log by Hans and Pete.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man 8 Bellying forward to the edge of the clearing, he found Hans, lying on his face, feathered with arrows like a porcupine.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call 9 He was half drowned, and Hans and Pete threw themselves upon him, pounding the breath into him and the water out of him.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man 10 The next instant he was grappling with Buck on the extreme edge, while Hans and Pete were dragging them back into safety.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man 11 He swam powerfully and was dragged ashore by Pete and Hans at the very point where swimming ceased to be possible and destruction began.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man 12 This it did, and was flying down-stream in a current as swift as a mill-race, when Hans checked it with the rope and checked too suddenly.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man 13 Hans and Pete moved along the bank, snubbing with a thin Manila rope from tree to tree, while Thornton remained in the boat, helping its descent by means of a pole, and shouting directions to the shore.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man 14 But no living man had looted this treasure house, and the dead were dead; wherefore John Thornton and Pete and Hans, with Buck and half a dozen other dogs, faced into the East on an unknown trail to achieve where men and dogs as good as themselves had failed.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call 15 At a particularly bad spot, where a ledge of barely submerged rocks jutted out into the river, Hans cast off the rope, and, while Thornton poled the boat out into the stream, ran down the bank with the end in his hand to snub the boat when it had cleared the ledge.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man 16 When Thornton's partners, Hans and Pete, arrived on the long-expected raft, Buck refused to notice them till he learned they were close to Thornton; after that he tolerated them in a passive sort of way, accepting favors from them as though he favored them by accepting.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man