Jack, the Giant St. Bernard 71 



of this last dog in the train to so quickly 

 stop and throw himself back, that the three 

 dogs ahead of him are as suddenly brought 

 to a standstill as though pulled up with a 

 lasso. So well trained and intelligent are 

 some of these sleigh dogs, in this work, that 

 it seems as though they can judge within a 

 very few inches whether the narrow passage 

 is sufficiently wide for the sleigh, for which 

 they well know they are held responsible, 

 to pass through. 



The marvellous leader of my own favour- 

 ite train was Voyageur, a great one-eyed dog 

 of unclassed breed, morose and unsociable, 

 but the peerless leader for a number of 

 years. Of him I will have something to say 

 of interest in another place. 



Distempers and other diseases played sad 

 havoc at times among the dogs. Some years 

 at least a third of my trained dogs would 

 be thus cut off. So it was always necessary 

 to have a number of young ones coming to 

 full size, to take the places of those that had 

 fallen. The work of breaking in these new 

 dogs was sometimes a very difficult task. 

 While there were those, like Jack and Cuffy, 

 that took naturally and quickly to the work, 

 there were others that offered the most des- 



