THE LAPLANDER'S TREASURE. 



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the snow, when its frontal horns are very useful in scraping 

 away the snow from the places where the lichens grow. 



7. " When out grazing on the f jelds, the reindeer are 

 prevented from 

 wandering too 

 far by men 

 who are regu- 

 larly employed 

 to watch them, 

 and who are as- 

 sisted in their 

 labors by dogs. 

 Some Lapps 

 have as many 

 as forty dogs to 

 keep the rein- 

 deer together, 

 and to drive 

 them home to 

 be milked. 

 These animals 

 are as sagacious 

 as Engl i sh 

 sheep-dogs, and 

 can distinguish 



their respective charges by some instinctive recognition 

 of their faces. The Lapp is neither kind nor gentle to his 

 dogs, but keeps them in a state of semi-starvation they 

 have to depend for their food on the bones of the reindeer 

 that are thrown to them, or to the licking out of the pots 

 as they lie round the Lapp's tent. A grim joke is extant 

 in Norway, to the effect that the Lapp is too lazy to clean 

 his pots and pans, so he keeps his dogs hungry to do it 

 for him. 



Reindeer and Glutton. 



