# Count To A Million Thread! **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 2, 2018, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653 "2018-09-02T18:47:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 169
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3493 Right. đź’‚ ---
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3494 And we started on at the streak of dawn; but God! he looked ghastly pale. ---
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3495 He crouched on the sleigh, and he raved all day of his home in Tennessee; ---
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3496 And before nightfall a corpse was all that was left of Sam McGee. ---
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3497 There wasn’t a breath in that land of death, and I hurried, horror-driven, ---
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3498 With a corpse half hid that I couldn’t get rid, because of a promise given; ---
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3499 It was lashed to the sleigh, and it seemed to say: "You may tax your brawn and brains, ---
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3500 But you promised true, and it’s up to you to cremate those last remains." ---
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3501 Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code. ---
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3502 In the days to come, though my lips were dumb, in my heart how I cursed that load. ---
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3503 In the long, long night, by the lone firelight, while the huskies, round in a ring, ---
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3504 Howled out their woes to the homeless snows— O God! how I loathed the thing. ---
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3505 And every day that quiet clay seemed to heavy and heavier grow; ---
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3506 And on I went, though the dogs were spent and the grub was getting low; ---
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3507 The trail was bad, and I felt half mad, but I swore I would not give in; ---
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3508 And I’d often sing to the hateful thing, and it hearkened with a grin. ---
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3509 Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay; ---
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3510 It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the “Alice May.” ---
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3511 And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum; ---
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3512 Then “Here,” said I, with a sudden cry, “is my cre-ma-tor-eum.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653.md?page=168) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653.md?page=170)