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Gullfoot reports him bad to harness, being restless 

 and excitable, and always twisting himself in the 

 traces at a halt ; but he was a good dog otherwise. 



LYNX : A little short-limbed active dog, about 

 the size of a highland collie, with a much-scarred 

 nose and a reputation for fighting. He was a cross- 

 bred dog with drooping ears, and was chiefly 

 black in colour, with brown belly and paws. 

 A dog one would not look at twice, but worth 

 his weight in gold. " My best dog," said Gull- 

 foot ; " pulls hard, has a great heart for work, 

 and doesn't know when to quit." He looked it : 

 game through and through. 



DAY STAR : Neither a husky nor a cross-bred 

 sled-dog ; just a mustard-yellow terrier-hound 

 mongrel with scant, close-set coat of hair to with- 

 stand cold. She had a white star-mark on her 

 forehead, but she was well named on a second 

 score, for she it was who guided the team at Gull- 

 foot's bidding. This was Gullfoot's leader ; an 

 animal of wonderful intelligence, he told me, 

 in following snow-covered trails, and with a 

 memory almost more acute than that of a human 

 being for places she has once passed. Gullfoot 

 showed his appreciation of her in covering her 

 short-haired body with a blanket-rug to help 

 keep her warm when on the trail ; a considerable, 

 and rare, condescension on the part of an Indian 

 toward a dog. 



After discussing dogs, we talked foxes. Every- 

 one in the North talked foxes in 1914. With the 

 floating of Fox Farms in the Eastern Provinces 

 the demand had gone up for live fox cubs of all 

 kinds, and hunters were tremendously stimulated 



