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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: country. Grubless, spiritless, with a lust for home in their
hearts, they had been staked by the P. C. Company to cut wood for
its steamers, with the promise at the end of a passage home.
Disregarding the possibilities of the ice-run, they had fittingly
demonstrated their inefficiency by their choice of the island on
which they located. Montana Kid, though possessing little
knowledge of the break-up of a great river, looked about him
dubiously, and cast yearning glances at the distant bank where the
towering bluffs promised immunity from all the ice of the
Northland.
After feeding himself and dogs, he lighted his pipe and strolled
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