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sleep right out on the hard-frozen snow 

 banks, if they have plenty to eat, and 

 never seem to mind it, even though the 

 ice on the lakes and rivers may have 

 frozen to a thickness of six or eight feet. 

 And now, as the Eskimo dogs have 

 been mentioned, you boys who have a 

 favorite Carlo or Nero at home will wish 

 to know about those Arctic dogs ; ask- 

 ing what I mean by plenty to eat, and 

 whether, like your own favorites, they 

 get three meals a day and any number 

 of intermediate lunches. No doubt you 

 will think that they really should get 

 ever so much more on account of their 

 hard work in pulling the sledges, and in 

 such a cold country. Yet, hard as it 

 may seem, the Eskimo dog never gets 

 fed oftener than every other day, and 

 generally about every third day ; while- 



