6 Olof Krarcr. 



Our sleigh was drawn by dogs — sometimes six and 

 sometimes ten or twelve. Each dog had a collar 

 round his neck and a strip of reindeer hide tied into 

 the collar and to the sleigh. When the dogs were 

 well broken, they did not need any lines to guide 

 them; but if they were not well trained, they had to 

 have lines to contrpl them. While we were getting 

 ready to start, the dogs would jump about and whine 

 and be as anxious to go as fiery horses in this coun- 

 try. The trained dogs would run forward and put 

 their noses right into their collars without any trou- 

 ble. When all was ready, away we went! It was 

 great fun! The dogs could carry the sleigh faster 

 than horses do in this country. Sometimes the 

 sleigh was bumped and tumbled about a good deal 

 on the rough ice, and once in a while it tipped over. 



The dogs are about the size of shepherd dogs nnd 

 have sharp pointed ears. They are very strong, and 

 have heavy coats of long hair, which often drags 

 upon the snow. They are of a dirty gray color. 



When my father had as many as ten or twelve 

 doa"s, he had a separate snow-house for them and 

 kept them in that; but when he had lost or lent his 

 dogs, so that he had only two or three, he would 

 let them come into the snow-house with us. Our 

 dogs had the same kind of food to live on that we 

 had, and sometimes when food was scarce they had 

 a hard time of it. They were never fed when we 

 were going to start out for a sleigh ride, for then they 

 would lie right down and refuse to move one step. 



