I 4 8 THE CHILDREN OF THE COLD. 



the dog is surrounded, and probably after 

 he has broken through the circle thus 



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formed around him two or*three times, he 

 is finally caught and receives a severe 

 trouncing from a harness-trace in the 

 hands of some angry young Eskimo ; 

 but this lesson seldom does the dogs 

 much good, as I have always noticed 

 that, like spoiled children, they invaria- 

 bly go from bad to worse, until finally 

 their master becomes so angry that he 

 ties one of the dog's forefeet to its body 

 every night, so that he will have no 

 . trouble in catching the would-be runa- 

 way on the next morning/ 



The dogs are also used in various ways 

 in hunting. When the weather is so 

 foggy that Boreas's father can not see 

 very far, and there is consequently but 

 little prospect of killing any thing, unless 



