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SLEDGE DOGS. 



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who suffer from a plethora of callers in our own countr}'. I 

 commend the suggestion to the more progressive of my readers. 



The inhabitants of the village had already begun to get in and 

 tie up their dogs in anticipation of the coming winter. There 

 were over two hundred of them here, and we had ample oppor- 

 tunity of studying their habits. Most of them are white, with 



black heads, or entirely of a brown- 

 black, and their general aspect, 



owing to the sharp muzzle and prick ears, is decidedly wolf-like, — 

 an appearance that one is familiar with from the sketches of 

 Xorth American travellers. The only food they are provided with 

 by their masters is salmon of the hump-backed kind — the Garbusa ; 

 bvit during the summer, as I have already said, they pick up game, 

 eggs, and bu'ds in their wanderings about the country. They are 

 usually inspanned in teams of eight or ten, but where the sledges 

 are heavy or the roads Ijad, douljle that number, or even more, are 

 occasionally used. When the snow is hard and even, they will 



