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inroads into the tents. If he was hungry, and had no muzzle on, 

 he would eat his harness, and if he had eaten his fill he gnawed it 

 from pure love of mischief. He would not work, but took every 

 opportunity of slipping his harness, and the result of all his tricks 

 was that he grew as fat as a sucking-pig. 



Now, we had made up our minds that, as he would not work, he 

 should not have any food ; but when we had driven him a couple 



BEITSTADPJOKD GLACIER, FROM STENEJ!R. 



of days he refused to go a step farther. However, go he should, 

 we thought, so we tied him to the end of the ridge-pole belonging 

 to the big canvas tent, which was stowed on Bay's sledge. The 

 pole was sixteen feet long ; the sledge only eleven. This arrange- 

 ment answered pretty well for a time, in spite of active resistance 

 on the ' Tiger's ' part, but when we came to a pool the pole swept 

 him under water ; and as we were dragging the sledge Tip from it 

 over rough ice, so that its fore-end was tipped downwards, he was 

 then swung up several feet into the air. It was no pleasure being 

 a sucking-pig then ! 



