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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: This caught the radiating heat from the fire and flung it down
upon the skin. Another man sat on a sled, drawn close to the
blaze, mending moccasins. To the right, a heap of frozen gravel
and a rude windlass denoted where they toiled each day in dismal
groping for the pay-streak. To the left, four pairs of snowshoes
stood erect, showing the mode of travel which obtained when the
stamped snow of the camp was left behind.
That Schwabian folk-song sounded strangely pathetic under the cold
northern stars, and did not do the men good who lounged about the
fire after the toil of the day. It put a dull ache into their
hearts, and a yearning which was akin to belly-hunger, and sent
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