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miles or so in the morning and slipped backwards, thus 

 bringing up their run to about eight miles. In their case, 

 that is sufficient for one day. When the evening hour 

 comes they are all very ready to seek the quiet rest of their 

 individual kennels, and to feel the proud consciousness 

 that they are daily learning a little more of a very honour- 

 able task. 



The following nominal roll of men and dogs, attached 

 to a sectional kennel, gives a good idea, of the class of dog 

 found most suitable. It brings out the fact, that the gift 

 of intelligence necessary for message carrying, cannot be 

 said to be confined in particular to any one breed. It 

 should be noted, however, that many of these dogs had 

 slight crosses in them, and this is especially so in the case 

 of the Retrievers, many of which had a strain of Collie 

 in them. 



MESSENGER DOG SERVICE 



NOMINAL ROLL OF DOGS AND KEEPERS No. 3 SECTION 



N.C.O. i/c, Sergt. W. Bonney. 



