Daily puzzle

Put The Law of Life back in order

Seven beats from our edition of The Law of Life by Jack London, shuffled. Drag them, or use the arrows, until the story runs straight. No account, no streak to lose.

  1. The tribe breaks camp Blind old Koskoosh listens to his people striking camp and grasps that he is being left behind to die in the snow.
  2. The last sticks His granddaughter Sit-cum-to-ha gives him a final small store of firewood and departs with the others.
  3. Alone by the fire Left alone, Koskoosh measures his remaining life by the dwindling pile of sticks beside him.
  4. The law of life He meditates on nature's indifference, recalling that the task of life is to reproduce and then make way for the young.
  5. The old moose He remembers a wolf pack pulling down an aged bull moose, an image of the individual's defeat by nature's hunger.
  6. Circling shapes As the fire fails, real wolves gather around him, the memory and the present moment merging.
  7. Bowing his head After a brief resistance with a burning branch, Koskoosh accepts the law he has always believed and lets the end come.