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The young dog did splendidly, but poor 

 Voyageur was wild and furious. He was 

 most indignant at this insult heaped upon 

 him and was not at all backward in show- 

 ing his temper. He first tried to get hold 

 of the young dog to thrash him for his im- 

 pertinence. This the thoroughly frightened 

 young dog did not permit as he took good 

 care to keep his traces so stretched that he 

 was a couple of feet ahead of the teeth of 

 the furious old dog. Failing in this, Voy- 

 ageur then tried to cut the traces with his 

 teeth as he had done before. This of course 

 I resented, and a couple of cracks from the 

 whip showed the old dog that although I 

 had forgiven him for his first offence in this 

 line, I was in no mood to see my valuable 

 dog harness cut again. Foiled here, the 

 excited dog now made the most desperate 

 efforts to get ahead of the young dog who 

 had thus suddenly supplanted him as leader. 

 But the old dogs behind Voyageur did not 

 enter into his spirit, and as the load of fish 

 was heavy, they saw no reason for any 

 special exertion. They were willing to do 

 their share of the pulling at the ordinary 

 speed, but were not anxious to so exert 



