Old Bill Craig smiled with satisfaction as he walked to the dog kennels behind his cabin with Sgt Preston of the North West Mounted Police. Bill's reputation for raising the finest Malamute dogs in the North West Territory, was one of the reasons the Mountie never failed to visit him when he was in Bill's vicinity. He opened the shed door to show the Sgt his dog Sheba's litter of pups. Poor Sheba had too many this time, and Bill is going to destroy the weakest pup, to give the strongest ones the best chance of survival. Sgt Preston asks if he can take the little one to give to Jimmy Haven, a young boy who the Sgt had promised a dog to a while back...