XVIII 



OUR DOGS IN SUMMER TIME 



AS a general thing the dogs have a long 

 holiday during the summer months. 

 There are no roads and consequently 

 no land vehicles. So truly is this the case 

 that among some of the northern tribes the 

 missionaries, in translating such words in 

 the Bible as " carriage," " chariot," or 

 " waggon," found nothing else available 

 than " dog sled." It seemed rather start- 

 ling to hear a brother missionary tell his 

 people, through the interpreter, that when 

 the venerable patriarch Jacob went down to 

 join his son Joseph in Egypt, he made the 

 journey in a dog sled ! 



As the Indians have no work for their 

 dogs in the summer, they never or very 

 seldom feed them. They leave them to for- 

 age for themselves. They are the scaven- 

 gers of the country, and all the sanitation 

 of the land is left in their charge, and well 

 do they do the work. 



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