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dogs with which Rover was harnessed, ere he 

 would be left behind. 



Rover, like all of my civilized dogs, had 

 not the hard, firm, compact feet of the Hus- 

 kies. Hence, for him and others, I had to be 

 prepared to overcome this defect as far as 

 possible. 



Various expedients have been devised, but 

 we found that the best plan was to have a 

 large stock of dog-shoes with us on every 

 trip. These shoes were made of a firmly 

 woven warm woollen cloth called duffle. The 

 shoes were shaped very much like a man's 

 mitten without the thumb. They were of 

 various sizes so as to fit snugly to the in- 

 jured foot, whether large or small. 



Some winters there would be compara- 

 tively few injuries or frozen feet among my 

 dogs. Then perhaps the very next season, 

 hardly a dog escaped. While as a general 

 thing these injuries were confined to my im- 

 ported dogs or their descendants, yet there 

 were winters when almost every dog I owned 

 suffered, and all vied with each other in 

 calls for the comfortable woollen shoes to be 

 put on their feet. 



The injuries to their feet from which they 



