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ute ; in fifteen seconds more, all three of the caribou were 
put out of their suffering. 
Solomon replaced his knife in its sheath, and looked 
around for Joe and Jim. Here was meat enough to last 
for weeks to come ; but could it be carried to the camp, 
with twenty miles of rough ground and two independent 
packs of half-starved wolves between ? This was the 
question which passed through Baronov's mind as he stood 
there on the ice, in the midst of his booty. 
