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two or three dogs were needed to drag 

 off the body. Then they would unhitch 

 these from the team, and take them over 

 to the hunter, who would fasten their 

 traces around the reindeer's horns, and 

 drag it to the sledge. Occasionally the 

 two boys would try a reindeer hunt on 

 their own hook, and although they were 

 seldom successful, not daring to frighten 

 the deer from the men who were better 

 hunters, yet once in awhile they were 

 rewarded, and then their eyes would 

 fairly glisten with joy and pride. 



Colonel Gilder, of our party, was very 

 kind to little Koomanah, and becoming 

 tired of carrying his revolver, he took off 

 the ordinary wooden pistol-butt and put 

 in a longer one, more like a gun- 

 stock, and roughly made of walnut. He 

 let Koomanah use this dwarf gun, as 



