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to the work of hauling their loads. AVhen night came, if their 

 feet were sore they had dog sense enough to come to their master 

 and, throwing themselves on their backs, would stick up their 

 feet and whine and howl until the warm duffle shoes were put 

 on. Some of the skulking ones had wit enough, when they did 

 not want to he caught, in the gloom of the early morning, 

 while the stars were still shining, if they were white, to cuddle 

 down, still and quiet, in the beautiful snow; while the darker ones 

 would slink away into the gloom of the dense balsams, where they 

 seemed to know that it would be difficult for them to be seen. 

 Some of them had wit enough when traveling up steep places with 

 heavy loads, where their progress was slow, to seize hold of small 

 firm bushes in their teeth to help them up or to keep them from 

 slipping back. Some of them knew how to shirk their work. 

 Caesar, of whom we have already spoken, at times was one of this 

 class. They could pretend, by their panting and tugging at their 

 collars, that they Avere dragging more than any other dogs in the 

 train, while at the same time they were not pulling a pound ! 



Of cats I do not write. I am no lover of them, and therefore 

 am incompetent to write about them. This lack of love for them 

 is, I presume, from the fact that when a boy I was the proud owner 

 of some very beautiful rabbits, upon which the cats of the neigh- 

 borhood used to make disastrous raids. So great was my boyish 

 indignation then that the dislike to them created has in a measure 

 continued to this day, and I have not as yet begun to cultivate 

 their intimate acquaintance. 



But of dogs I have ever been a lover and a friend. I never 

 saw one, not mad, of which I was afraid, and I never saw one with 

 w^hich I could not speedily make friends. Love was the constrain- 

 ing motive principally used in breaking my dogs in to their work 

 in the trains. ISTo whip was ever used upon Jack or Cuffy while 

 they were learning their tasks. Some dogs had to be punished 

 more or less. Some stubborn dogs at once surrendered and gave 

 no more trouble when a favorite female dog was harnessed up in 

 a train and sent on ahead. This affection in the dog for his mate 

 was a powerful lever in the hands of his master, and, using it as an 

 incentive, we have seen things performed as remarkable as any we 

 have here recorded. 



From what I have written it will be seen that I have had un- 

 usual facilities for studying the habits and possibilities of dogs. 

 I was not under the necessity of gathering up a lot of mongrels 

 at random in the streets, and then, in order to see instances of their 

 sagacity and the exercise of their highest reasoning powers, to 

 keep them until they were " practically utterly hungry," and then 



