A good idea, he thought, to sleep off to death. It was like taking an anaesthetic. Freezing was not so bad as people thought. There were lots worse ways to die... Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known.

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Original Citation

London, Jack. To Build a Fire. Century Magazine, 1908.

Current Citation

London, Jack. "To Build a Fire." The Call of the Wild, White Fang & To Build a Fire. Modern Library, 1998.