FEEDING THE DOGS. 85 



and if it were not for his hideous yelling 

 and crying, one would hardly know what 

 he is, so covered is he with dirt, grease, 

 and snow. Thus the dogs occasionally 

 have their revenge on little Boreas for 

 whacking them over the nose with his 

 toy arrows, although this is not their 

 object in rushing into the igloo, for the 

 real cause is their ravenous hunger. 



The duty of feeding the dogs is often 

 intrusted to the boys, and it is no easy 

 work. The most common food for the 

 dogs is walrus-skin, about an inch to an 

 inch and a half thick, cut in strips each 

 about as wide as it is thick, and from a 

 foot to eighteen inches long. The dog 

 swallows one of these strips as he would 

 a snake ; and it is so tough that when he 

 has swallowed about twelve pieces, it is 

 no great wonder that he does not want 



