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had not courage enough to follow up with 

 any vigourous attacks, and so he merely 

 showed his teeth and uttered a growl or two 

 of defiance. He seemed to say : " I've got 

 possession — get me out if you can ! " For 

 some minutes Rover would thus protest in 

 all the dog-entreating words which he had 

 in his limited vocabulary, and who knows 

 but he added a few stronger ones? When 

 he saw that all these efforts failed, he in- 

 variably came for me. 



When we saw him coming, which always 

 afforded great, fun to the Indians, I would 

 purposely move round the fire in and out of 

 the camp, on different sides, or go in and 

 out among the dog sleds. Still doggedly 

 would Rover follow me up until I felt I had 

 tried his persistence quite long enough, 

 when I would stop. Then with a " yow ! 

 yow! yow! " he would seize the fringe of my 

 moose skin leather coat, and with a gentle 

 yet firm tug, lead me to the spot where he 

 had prepared his nest at such trouble for his 

 night's rest, but which was now in the pos- 

 session of an intruder. Rover would not 

 let go of me until he had brought me to the 

 very edge of the nest. Then in his comical, 

 plaintive language, he would direct my at- 



