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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: sled-dog from Chilkoot to Bering Sea. As wheel or leader, Wolf
Fang had no equal. The man whose sled he led down the last
stretch was bound to win. There could be no doubt of it. But the
community had an innate sense of the fitness of things, and not
once was Joy vexed by overtures for his use. And the factions
drew consolation from the fact that if one man did not profit by
him, neither should the other.
However, since man, in the individual or in the aggregate, has
been so fashioned that he goes through life blissfully obtuse to
the deeper subtleties of his womankind, so the men of Forty Mile
failed to divine the inner deviltry of Joy Molineau. They
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