The Winter Night. 



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at the first movement I made in the sledge they were off 

 again, tearing wildly back the way we had come. I held 

 on convulsively, pulled, raged, and used the whip ; but 



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Drawn by\ MY FIRST ATTEMPT AT DOG DRIVING. [A. Block. 



the more I lashed the faster they went on their own w r ay. 

 At last I got them stopped by sticking my legs down 

 into the snow between the sledge-shafts, and driving a 



