Everybody acknowledged Buck a magnificent animal, but twenty fifty-pound sacks of flour bulked too large in their eyes for them to loosen their pouch-strings.

人人都承认巴克是条了不起的好狗，但二十只装满了五十磅面粉的袋子在他们眼里太庞大了，哪敢还把自己的钱袋打开。