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Each dog is harnessed to a separate line ; and these, 

 being about eight abreast, fully endowed with all ami 

 more than all the playfulness of young animals in this 

 country, the effect may be pictured when, all jumping on 

 each other in most admired confusion, the lines become 

 entangled, and are only set right after many efforts. 

 This process has to be repeated again and again, as 

 the gambols or quarrels of the young dogs render it 

 necessary. 



The whip, too, would puzzle a London cabby, and is not 



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easy for a novice to use a lash from twenty to twentv- 

 four feet long, attached to a handle one foot long; it 

 requires no small amount of dexterity to avoid wounding 

 your own person in an attempt to make an example of 

 one of your pupils. When trained, however, they are 

 guided only by a touch of the whip to the near or off 

 leader, and over smooth ice, with a light load, can be 

 made to go seven or eight miles per hour. 



