Even the big bear grew old and blind, to be dragged down at last by a small group of barking sled dogs. He remembered how he had left his own father along the Klondike River one winter.

就连大熊也老了，瞎了，最后被一群狂吠的雪橇犬拖到在地。他记得有一年冬天他是如何把自己的父亲留在克朗代克河边。