The Faith of Men — Jack London

The Faith of Men is a short story collection originally published in 1904 and contains eight of Jack London s adventure tales all of them set in London s favorite milieu the Yukon Territory A Relic of the Pliocene concerns a homely blue eyed freckle faced hunter named Thomas Stevens and his tracking and eventual killing of a prehistoric mammoth A Hyperborean Brew also concerns Thomas Stevens and his schemes In Batard an evil master makes a monster of an evil dog Other stories included are The Faith of Men Too Much Gold The One Thousand Dozen The Marriage of Lit Lit Batard and The Story of Jees Uck

The kerosene can I set over the lamp and to its nose I affixed a snout and into the snout the bone that was like a gooseneck I sent Moosu without to pound ice while I connected the barrel of his gun with the gooseneck and midway on the barrel I piled the ice he had pounded And at the far end of the gun barrel beyond the pan of ice I placed a small iron pot When the brew was strong enough and it was two days ere it could stand on its own legs I filled the kerosene can with it and lighted the wicks I had braided ldquo Now that all was ready I spoke to Moosu lsquo Go forth I said lsquo to the chief men of the village and give them greeting and bid them come into my igloo and sleep the night away with me and the gods ldquo The brew was singing merrily when they began shoving aside the skin flap and crawling in and I was heaping cracked ice on the gun barrel